Intra-cavity contacted vertical cavity laser arrays optimized for low current, high speed interconnect applications

Author

Scott, J.W. ; Thibeault, B.J. ; Mahon, C.J. ; Peters, F.H. ; Young, D.B. ; Coldren, L.A.

Author_Institution

Opt. Concepts Inc., Lompoc, CA, USA

fYear

1994

fDate

19-23 Sep 1994

Firstpage

219

Lastpage

220

Abstract

Experimental measurements of the performance of intra-cavity contacted vertical cavity lasers for short haul Gigabit data link applications are presented. At an output power of 1 mW these top-surface-emitting, sub-milliamp threshold lasers have bandwidths above 7 GHz while consuming only 10 mW of electrical power

Keywords

high-speed optical techniques; laser cavity resonators; optical interconnections; optical transmitters; semiconductor laser arrays; surface emitting lasers; 1 mW; 10 mW; 7 GHz; InGaAs; bandwidths; electrical power; high speed interconnect applications; intra-cavity contacted vertical cavity laser arrays; low current; output power; performance; short haul Gigabit data link applications; top-surface-emitting, sub-milliamp threshold lasers; Laser modes; Optical arrays; Optical pumping; Optical waveguides; Power generation; Power lasers; Semiconductor laser arrays; Surface emitting lasers; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers; Waveguide lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Semiconductor Laser Conference, 1994., 14th IEEE International

Conference_Location

Maui, HI

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1754-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISLC.1994.519342

Filename

519342