• DocumentCode
    1762007
  • Title

    Photonic crystal VCSELs with narrow spectral width and high bandwidth operating at low current density

  • Author

    Tan, Min ; Fryslie, Stewart Thomas McKee ; Guenter, J.K. ; Tatum, Jim A. ; Johnson, Robert H. ; Choquette, Kent D.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA
  • Volume
    49
  • Issue
    9
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    April 25 2013
  • Firstpage
    612
  • Lastpage
    613
  • Abstract
    A photonic crystal vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser with a spectral width of 0.16 nm and a 3dB small signal modulation bandwidth of 16.2 GHz is demonstrated. Separation of optical and current apertures enables a narrow spectral width and an extremely low operating current density of ~ 1 kA/cm2 simultaneously. It can potentially be used as a high-reliability laser source that enables error-free transmission over long multimode fibre links at high data rate.
  • Keywords
    current density; holey fibres; optical links; photonic crystals; surface emitting lasers; bandwidth 16.2 GHz; current apertures; error-free transmission; high-reliability laser source; long multimode fibre links; narrow spectral width; operating current density; optical apertures; photonic crystal VCSEL; small signal modulation bandwidth; vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el.2013.0693
  • Filename
    6528123
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1762007