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- Gierl, Christian, et al.
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Tuneable VCSEL aiming for the application in interconnects and short haul systems
- 2011
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Ingår i: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. - : SPIE. - 0277-786X .- 1996-756X. - 9780819484963 ; 7959
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Widely tunable vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSEL) are of high interest for optical communications, gas spectroscopy and fiber-Bragg-grating measurements. In this paper we present tunable VCSEL operating at wavelength around 850 nm and 1550 nm with tuning ranges up to 20 nm and 76 nm respectively. The first versions of VCSEL operating at 1550 nm with 76 nm tuning range and an output power of 1.3mW were not designed for high speed modulation, but for applications where only stable continious tuning is essential (e.g. gas sensing). The next step was the design of non tunable VCSEL showing high speed modulation frequencies of 10 GHz with side mode supression ratios beyond 50 dB. The latest version of these devices show record output powers of 6.7mW at 20 °C and 3mW at 80 °C. The emphasis of our present and future work lies on the combination of both technologies. The tunable VCSEL operating in the 850 nm-region reaches a modulation bandwidth of 5.5GHz with an output power of 0.8mW.
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- Gustavsson, Johan, 1974, et al.
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High-speed 850-nm VCSELs for 40 Gb/s transmission
- 2010
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- We have explored the possibility to extend the data transmission rate for standard 850-nm GaAs-based VCSELs beyond the 10 Gbit/s limit of today's commercially available directly-modulated devices. By sophisticated tailoring of the design for high-speed performance we demonstrate that 10 Gb/s is far from the upper limit. For example, the thermal conductivity of the bottom mirror is improved by the use of binary compounds, and the electrical parasitics are kept at a minimum by incorporating a large diameter double layered oxide aperture in the design. We also show that the intrinsic high speed performance is significantly improved by replacing the traditional GaAs QWs with strained InGaAs QWs in the active region. The best overall performance is achieved for a device with a 9 μm diameter oxide aperture, having in a threshold current of 0.6 mA, a maximum output power of 9 mW, a thermal resistance of 1.9 °C/mW, and a differential resistance of 80 Ω. The measured 3dB bandwidth exceeds 20 GHz, and we experimentally demonstrate that the device is capable of error-free transmission (BER
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- Haglund, Erik, 1985, et al.
(författare)
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High-contrast gratings for WDM VCSEL arrays
- 2014
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Ingår i: Optics & Photonics in Sweden, 11-12 Nov. 2014, Göteborg.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) have become the workhorse of short-reach optical interconnects in datacenters and supercomputers. The last few years have seen an impressive increase in VCSEL modulation bandwidth, enabling record-high single-channel data rates exceeding 60 Gbit/s [1]. In addition to higher single-channel rates, interconnect capacity may be enhanced by employing multiplexing techniques such coarse wavelength division multiplexing (WDM). WDM VCSEL arrays can be designed using a high-contrast grating (HCG) as top mirror instead of a distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) [2]. The HCG consists of a subwavelength grating of high refractive index material (GaAs) surrounded by low refractive index material (air), see figure 1. The result is a thin, broad-band and highly reflective mirror. The reflection from the HCG has a varying phase depending on grating geometry. This can be used to set the HCG-VCSEL wavelength in a post-growth process by fabricating gratings with different period and duty-cycle. A first proof of concept has been realized and HCG-VCSELs showing resonances covering a span exceeding 20 nm have been demonstrated. Figure 1: Top: schematic figure of HCG-VCSEL array. Left: Top and cross-sectional SEM image of HCG. Right: Simulated and experimental HCG-VCSEL resonance wavelength for different duty cycles and periods (p) measured by electroluminescence. References[1] D. Kuchta et al., “64Gb/s Transmission over 57m MMF using an NRZ Modulated 850nm VCSEL,” OFC 2014[2] V. Karagodsky et al., “Monolithically integrated multi-wavelength VCSEL arrays using high-contrast gratings,” Opt. Express, 18(2), 2010
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- Haglund, Erik, 1985, et al.
(författare)
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High-speed lasers for optical interconnects
- 2012
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Ingår i: Swedish Optics and Photonics Days 2012.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In the era of cloud computing, with services such as video streaming, social networking, and online storage and file sharing, the demand for online data processing and storage capacity is growing rapidly. These services are hosted in huge data centers that need not only fast servers but also fast communication between servers. Because copper cables have high attenuation at high frequencies, the most promising solution is to use fiber optical links (called optical interconnects) to connect different parts of the data center. Today, gallium arsenide-based vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) emitting at 850 nm are the standard light source in transmitters used in commercially available optical interconnects, operating at up to 14 Gbit/s with a link length of up to 300 m. These lasers have the advantages of low power consumption, fast direct modulation at low currents, and low-cost manufacturing. To keep up with the demand of increasing optical interconnect capacity, the Photonics Laboratory at Chalmers university of Technology is conducting research into improving the speed, reach and capacity of VCSELs for optical interconnects.
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- Haglund, Erik, 1985, et al.
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Low Spectral Width High-Speed VCSELs
- 2011
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Ingår i: International Nano-Optoelectronic Workshop (iNOW).
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The transmission distance of high-speed multimode 850 nm VCSELs is currently limited by modal dispersion. A design and process to fabricate high-speed VCSELs with a reduced spectral width using a surface relief technique are presented.
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- Haglund, Erik, 1985, et al.
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Mode-filtered semiconductor lasers enable longer-reach optical interconnects
- 2012
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Ingår i: SPIE Newsroom. - : SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng. - 1818-2259.
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- An integrated mode filter significantly decreases the spectral width of conventional short-wavelength vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers, promising longer optical interconnects for future data centers.
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- Haglund, Erik, 1985, et al.
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Quasi-single mode VCSELs for longer-reach multimode fiber optical interconnects
- 2014
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Ingår i: Summers School on Optical Interconnects, 3-6 June 2014, Thessaloniki.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Longer-reach (>300 m) optical interconnects are needed asdatacenters grow ever larger. Today the reach of 850 nmVCSEL-based optical interconnects is mainly limited by fiber dispersion. By reducing the spectral width of the VCSEL, the effects of fiber dispersion may be reduced, effectively increasing the error-free transmission distance.
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- Hashemi, Seyed Ehsan, 1986, et al.
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Engineering the transverse optical guiding in GaN-based VCSELs to avoid detrimental optical loss
- 2012
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Ingår i: International Workshop on Nitride Semiconductors 2012, October 14-19, 2012, Sapporo, Japan, p. ThP-OD-33.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In order to improve the current injection in GaN-based blue vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs) a dielectric aperture is generally used in combination with an indium-tin-oxide (ITO) layer on the top intracavity p-contact layer. The most straightforward way to realize this introduces a depression of the structure near the optical axis and we show, by using a 2D effective index method and a 3D coupled-cavity beam propagation method, that this typically results in optically anti-guided structures with associated high optical losses and thus very high threshold gains. Remarkably, the threshold gain reduces with increased negative guiding, which is due to improved lateral confinement and reduction of lateral leakage. Still, moderately positively guided designs should be preferred to avoid the detrimental effect of lateral leakage and high diffraction loss. To ensure positive index guiding, we propose to planarize the structure or introduce an elevation near the optical axis by additional processing, with an associated reduction in threshold material gain from 6000 cm-1 to 2000 cm-1 for the studied structures.
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- Kögel, Benjamin, 1979, et al.
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Short-wavelength tunable VCSELs
- 2009
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Ingår i: European Semiconductor Laser Workshop (ESLW).
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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