20 Gb/s 85°C error-free operation of vcsels based on submonolayer deposition of quantum dots

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1302-1308

  Hopfer, Friedhelm ^b   Mutig, Alex ^b   Fiol, Gerrit ^b   Kuntz, Matthias ^b   Shchukin, Vitaly A ^b   Haisler, Vladimir A ^b,c   Warming, Till ^b   Stock, Erik ^b   Mikhrin, Sergey S ^d   Krestnikov, Igor L ^d   Livshits, Daniel A ^d   Kovsh, Alexey R ^d   Bornholdt, Carsten ^e   Lenz, Andrea ^b   Eisele, Holger ^b   Dähne, Mario ^b   Ledentsov, Nikolai N ^b   Bimberg, Dieter ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Germany)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF SEMICONDUCTOR PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^d NL Nanosemiconductor GmbH   (Germany)

^e FRAUNHOFER HEINRICH HERTZ INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

High speed modulation; Optical interconnects; Semiconductor lasers; Surface emitting lasers

Indexed keywords

CURRENT ADJUSTMENT; HIGH SPEED MODULATION; SUBMONOLAYER GROWTH; VERTICAL-CAVITY SURFACE-EMITTING LASERS;

BIT ERROR RATE; DEPOSITION; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SURFACE EMITTING LASERS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 35348996628     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2007.905133     Document Type: Conference Paper

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