Title :
Effect of microcavity size to the RIN and 40 Gb/s data transmission performance of high speed VCSELs
Author :
Fei Tan ; Mong-Kai Wu ; Wang, Curtis ; Liu, Michael ; Feng, Milton ; Holonyak, Nick
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrated that larger aperture VCSELs have better performance in 40Gb/s error free data transmission, and smaller aperture VCSELs have lower laser RIN. Medium aperture VCSELs may excel in high fidelity and high speed applications.
Keywords :
laser noise; microcavity lasers; optical communication equipment; semiconductor lasers; surface emitting lasers; RIN; bit rate 40 Gbit/s; error free data transmission; high fidelity applications; high speed VCSEL; high speed applications; medium aperture VCSEL; microcavity size; relative intensity noise; Adaptive optics; Data communication; High-speed optical techniques; Noise; Optical device fabrication; Optical noise; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
