High-speed VCSEL of modulation bandwidth over 7.0 GHz and its application to 100 m PCF datalink

Author

Dutta, Achyut Kumar ; Kosaka, Hideo ; Kurihara, Kaori ; Sugimasa, Y. ; Kasahara, Kenichi

Author_Institution

Opto-Electron. Res. Labs., NEC Corp., Ibaraki, Japan

Volume

16

Issue

5

fYear

1998

fDate

5/1/1998 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

870

Lastpage

875

Abstract

High-speed vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) with 6×6 μm active area is fabricated by reducing its pad area in order to reduce its parasitic capacitance. The fabricated VCSEL shows the 3 dB bandwidth of over 7 GHz and average threshold current of 0.7 mA. This is the highest 3 dB modulation bandwidth ever reported for the plan type bottom emitted laser with pad. The maximum intrinsic bandwidth as estimated from k-factor is found to be over 20 GHz, which is less than three times than the observed bandwidth. The thermal characteristics are also found to be almost unchanged due to the reducing of its pad size. It also showed open eye pattern for 3 GHz nonreturn to zero (NRZ) pseudorandom signal after transmission through 100 m large core plastic clad fiber (PCF), which could be used in short and medium distance optical links

Keywords

capacitance; electro-optical modulation; high-speed optical techniques; laser cavity resonators; optical fibre communication; surface emitting lasers; 0.7 mA; 100 m; 7 GHz; PCF datalink; active area; average threshold current; high-speed VCSEL; high-speed vertical cavity surface emitting laser; k-factor; large core plastic clad fiber; medium distance optical links; modulation bandwidth; pad area; parasitic capacitance; plan type bottom emitted laser; pseudorandom signal; thermal characteristics; Bandwidth; Data communication; Fiber lasers; High speed optical techniques; Optical fiber communication; Optical signal processing; Parasitic capacitance; Plastics; Surface emitting lasers; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/50.669024

Filename

669024