Dynamic beam switching of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers with integrated optical beam routers

Author

Fan, L. ; Wu, M.C. ; Lee, H.C. ; Grodzinski, P.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., California Univ., Los Angeles, CA, USA

Volume

9

Issue

4

fYear

1997

fDate

4/1/1997 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

505

Lastpage

507

Abstract

Dynamic beam switching of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) have been demonstrated for the first time using integrated optical beam routers. The output beam of the VCSEL is switched electrically between two different emission angles. High-speed switching up to 2 GHz has been achieved with an 8 μm×8 μm device. Such beam-steering devices are particularly suitable for optical interconnect and photonic switching applications. By integrating the beam routers with VCSELs, the complexity and size of the switching nodes are significantly reduced.

Keywords

electro-optical switches; high-speed optical techniques; laser cavity resonators; optical computing; optical interconnections; parallel architectures; semiconductor lasers; surface emitting lasers; 2 GHz; 8 mum; VCSEL; beam-steering devices; complexity; dynamic beam switching; emission angles; high-speed switching; integrated optical beam routers; optical computing; optical interconnect; output beam; parallel architecture; photonic switching applications; switched electrically; switching nodes; vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers; High speed optical techniques; Laser beams; Multiprocessor interconnection networks; Optical arrays; Optical beams; Optical fiber networks; Optical interconnections; Phase shifters; Surface emitting lasers; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.559403

Filename

559403