DocumentCode
50883
Title
85-fJ Dissipated Energy Per Bit at 30 Gb/s Across 500-m Multimode Fiber Using 850-nm VCSELs
Author
Moser, Philip ; Lott, James A. ; Wolf, Philip ; Larisch, Gunter ; Li, Huaqing ; Bimberg, Dieter
Author_Institution
Institut für Festkörperphysik und Zentrum für Nanophotonik, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Volume
25
Issue
16
fYear
2013
fDate
Aug.15, 2013
Firstpage
1638
Lastpage
1641
Abstract
We present important progress in energy efficiency for oxide-confined 850-nm single mode and quasi single mode vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) suitable for optical interconnects. Error-free operation at 30 Gb/s across 500 m of multimode optical fiber is achieved with 85 fJ of dissipated energy per bit. At 25 Gb/s, the maximum multimode fiber distance is 1000 m. These VCSELs are presently the most energy efficient directly modulated light-sources for data transmission across multimode optical fiber distances up to 1 km.
Keywords
Adaptive optics; Apertures; Energy efficiency; Optical fibers; Optical filters; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers; Energy efficiency; high speed modulation; multimode fiber; optical link; vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
1041-1135
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/LPT.2013.2273222
Filename
6564439
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