Electrically-pumped directly-modulated tunable VCSEL for metro DWDM applications

Author

Yuen, W. ; Li, G.S. ; Nabiev, R.F. ; Jansen, M. ; Davis, D. ; Chang-Hasnain, C.J.

Author_Institution

Bandwidth9 Inc., Fremont, CA, USA

fYear

2001

fDate

21-24 Oct. 2001

Firstpage

51

Lastpage

52

Abstract

Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs) offer advantages of being very cost effective and mass manufacturable. By integrating a VCSEL with a micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) cantilever, a tunable VCSEL with wide and continuous wavelength tuning can be obtained. Previous demonstrations of this concept were achieved in the short-wavelength (900-980 nm) regime. In this paper, we report the first electrically pumped tunable VCSELs with continuous tuning in 1530-1620 nm wavelength regime. The VCSELs are directly modulated at 2.5 Gbps (OC-48) rates and show error-free transmissions. Wavelength locking to ITU-grids are accomplished in /spl sim/200 /spl mu/s.

Keywords

distributed Bragg reflector lasers; laser cavity resonators; laser transitions; laser tuning; micro-optics; optical communication equipment; optical modulation; semiconductor lasers; surface emitting lasers; wavelength division multiplexing; 1530 to 1620 nm; 2.5 Gbit/s; 200 mus; DBR; ITU-grids; MEMS cantilever; MEMS/VCSEL monolithic integration; OC-48 rates; continuous wavelength tuning; directly modulated semiconductor laser; electrically pumped VCSELs; error-free transmissions; metro DWDM applications; micro-electro-mechanical cantilever; surface emitting lasers; tunable VCSEL; vertical cavity SELs; wavelength locking; Costs; Laser tuning; Mirrors; Optical tuning; Substrates; Surface emitting lasers; Tunable circuits and devices; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers; Voltage; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Gallium Arsenide Integrated Circuit (GaAs IC) Symposium, 2001. 23rd Annual Technical Digest

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD, USA

ISSN

1064-7775

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6663-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GAAS.2001.964344

Filename

964344