High-speed buried tunnel junction vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers

IEEE Photonics Journal

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 802-815

  Hofmann, Werner ^a,b,c  

^a WALTER SCHOTTKY INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

high speed modulation; Vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL)

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE REGIONS; BIAS CONDITIONS; BURIED TUNNEL JUNCTION; DATA RATES; DESIGN OPTIMIZATION; DETUNINGS; ERROR FREE OPERATIONS; ERROR FREE TRANSMISSION; HIGH-SPEED; HIGH-SPEED MODULATION; INP; LASER CHARACTERISTICS; LOW-COST SYSTEMS; MODULATION BANDWIDTH; MODULATION SPEED; PARASITICS; PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORKS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE RANGE; UNCOOLED; UNCOOLED OPERATION; VERTICAL-CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASER;

FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; LASERS; MICROOPTICS; MODULATION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PASSIVE NETWORKS; SPEED; TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

SURFACE EMITTING LASERS;

EID: 77956706740     PISSN: 19430655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOT.2010.2055554     Document Type: Article

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