• DocumentCode
    733289
  • 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
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    10-15 May 2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    7183726