Title :
10 Gbit/s transmission over 50 km of SMF using MEMS tunable VCSEL
Author :
A. Daly;C. Gierl;T. Grundl;C. Grasse;K. Zogal;D. Carey;P. Townsend;M.-C. Amann;P. Meissner;B. Corbett
Author_Institution :
University College Cork, Ireland
fDate :
3/29/2012 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A widely tunable vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) with an integrated mirror has been externally modulated in transmission experiments demonstrating error-free transmission over 50 km in singlemode optical fibre at 10 Gbit/s over a 30 nm tuning range. A penalty of 0.2 dB was measured when compared with a tunable external cavity laser which was due to residual membrane movement in the unpackaged VCSEL.
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el.2012.0405
