Design and analysis of single-mode oxidized VCSEL's for high-speed optical interconnects

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 503-511

  Wiedenmann, Dieter ^a   King, Roger ^a   Jung, Christian ^a   Jäger, Roland ^a   Michalzik, Rainer ^a   Schnitzer, Peter ^a   Kicherer, Max ^a   Ebeling, Karl J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DESIGN; FLIP CHIP DEVICES; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT MODULATION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE; SIGNAL NOISE MEASUREMENT;

HIGH SPEED OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; PARALLEL DATA TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS; RELATIVE INTENSITY NOISE; SEMICONDUCTOR LASER ARRAYS; VERTICAL CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASERS;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0033123726     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2944.788412     Document Type: Article

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