• 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