• DocumentCode
    732471
  • Title

    High speed surface micromachined MEMS tunable VCSEL for telecom wavelengths

  • Author

    Paul, Sujoy ; Gierl, Christian ; Cesar, Julijan ; Quang Trung Le ; Malekizandi, Mohammadreza ; Kuppers, Franko ; Kogel, Benjamin ; Rosskopf, Jurgen ; Greus, Christoph ; Gorblich, Markus ; Yan Xu ; Neumeyr, Christian ; Ortsiefer, Markus

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. for Microwave Eng. & Photonics, Tech. Univ. Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    10-15 May 2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We report direct modulation of a widely tunable surface micromachined MEMS VCSEL. The MEMS is electro-thermally actuated for tuning the emission wavelength over 60 nm with a center wavelength of 1554 nm. Error-free transmission is achieved at 10 Gbit/s for 47 nm tuning range.
  • Keywords
    laser cavity resonators; laser tuning; micro-optomechanical devices; micromachining; optical communication equipment; optical modulation; quantum well lasers; surface emitting lasers; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; direct modulation; electrothermal actuation; emission wavelength tuning; error-free transmission; high speed surface micromachined MEMS tunable VCSEL; telecom wavelength; wavelength 1554 nm; Adaptive optics; Bit error rate; Micromechanical devices; Optical modulation; Tuning; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    7182903