Polarization-instability and performance of free-space optical links based on vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers

Author

Kuksenkov, D.V. ; Temkin, H.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1995

fDate

30-31 Oct 1995

Firstpage

49

Abstract

We show here that the polarization instability results in signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) degradation and the appearance of bit error-rate (BER) floors in polarization-sensitive optical links. This limits performance of vertical cavity surface emitting laser [VCSEL-based] free-space optical interconnects to data rates significantly lower than the laser modulation bandwith. In conclusion, our experiments suggest that in the absence of polarization stability, data transmission rates in polarization-sensitive links based on VCSELs will be limited to -300 Mb/s

Keywords

laser cavity resonators; laser modes; laser noise; light polarisation; optical communication; optical interconnections; stability; surface emitting lasers; VCSEL-based free-space optical interconnects; bit error-rate floors; data rates; data transmission rates; free-space optical links; laser modulation bandwith; polarization-instability; polarization-sensitive optical links; signal-to-noise ratio degradation; vertical cavity surface emitting laser; vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers; Bit error rate; Degradation; Optical fiber communication; Optical interconnections; Optical modulation; Optical polarization; Signal to noise ratio; Stimulated emission; Surface emitting lasers; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, 1995. 8th Annual Meeting Conference Proceedings, Volume 1., IEEE

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2450-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.1995.484501

Filename

484501