High-temperature dynamics, high-speed modulation, and transmission experiments using 1.3-mu m InGaAs single-mode VCSELs

• High-temperature dynamics, including small and large signal modulation response, of 1.28-ftm GaAs-based vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) with highly strained InGaAs quantum wells have been investigated. The VCSELs are oxide-confined with a relatively large oxide aperture for high output power and have a surface relief for fundamental mode operation. An inverted surface relief is used to improve manufacturability and to suppress oxide modes that otherwise appear in VCSELs with a large detuning, between the cavity resonance and the gain peak. The size dependence of the modulation bandwidth and bandwidth limitations are. investigated. A VCSEL with an optimum combination of oxide aperture and surface relief diameters produces clear open eyes with an extinction ratio of > 6 dB at OC-48 and 10-GbE bit rates from 25 degrees C to 85 degrees C under constant drive conditions. The same VCSEL is also shown to be capable of eiror-free transmission (BER < 10(-9)) over 9 km of standard single-mode fiber under the same conditions.

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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Fysik -- Annan fysik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Physical Sciences -- Other Physics Topics (hsv//eng)

Keyword

high-speed modulation

InGaAs

inverted surface relief

single mode

vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL)

surface-emitting lasers

oxide confined vcsels

1.3 mu-m

suppression

relief

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