Energy-efficient oxide-confined 850-nm VCSELs for long-distance multimode fiber optical interconnects

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Moser, Philip ^a   Lott, James A ^b   Wolf, Philip ^a   Larisch, Gunter ^a   Payusov, Alexey ^c   Ledentsov, Nikolai N ^b   Bimberg, Dieter ^a,d  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b VI SYSTEMS GMBH   (Germany)

^c ST PETERSBURG ACADEMIC UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^d KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Energy efficiency; green photonics; high speed modulation; multimode fiber; optical interconnect; vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL)

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATIO (BER); DIRECTLY MODULATED LASERS; GREEN PHOTONICS; HIGH-SPEED MODULATION; MULTIMODE OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL INTERCONNECT; TRANSMISSION DISTANCES; VERTICAL-CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASER;

DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; MICROOPTICS; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SURFACE EMITTING LASERS;

MULTIMODE FIBERS;

EID: 84875975364     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2012.2218795     Document Type: Article

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