Title :
Athermal and widely tunable VCSEL with bimorph micromachined mirror
Author :
Nakahama, Masanori ; Sakaguchi, T. ; Matsutani, Akihiro ; Koyama, Fumio
Author_Institution :
Photonics Integration Syst. Res. Center, Tokyo Inst. of Technol., Tokyo, Japan
Abstract :
We demonstrate an athermal and electrostatically-tunable MEMS VCSEL for the first time. The continuous wavelength tuning of 20 nm is obtained with wavelength temperature dependence of 10 times smaller than conventional VCSELs.
Keywords :
laser cavity resonators; laser tuning; micromachining; micromirrors; surface emitting lasers; athermal VCSEL; bimorph micromachined mirror; continuous wavelength tuning; electrostatically-tunable MEMS VCSEL; wavelength temperature dependence; widely tunable VCSEL; Laser tuning; Micromechanical devices; Temperature dependence; Temperature measurement; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fibre Technology, 2014 OptoElectronics and Communication Conference and Australian Conference on
Conference_Location :
Melbourne, VIC
