Un-cooled 10 Gb/s dilute-nitride optical transmitters for the 1300 nm wavelength range

Author

Dumitrescu, M. ; Wolf, M. ; Schulz, K. ; Wang, S. ; Larsson, A. ; Sujecki, S. ; Larkins, E. ; Melanen, P. ; Uusimaa, P. ; Laakso, A. ; Pessa, M.

Author_Institution

Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Tampere Univ. of Technol., Tampere

Volume

1

fYear

2008

fDate

13-15 Oct. 2008

Firstpage

61

Lastpage

70

Abstract

Dilute-nitride-based edge-emitting Fabry-Perot lasers with record performances have been used to build un-cooled optical transceiver modules. The paper presents and analyses some of the achieved performances starting from chip level to optical link transmission experiments. The studies, performed within the EU-FP6 project fast access, prove that the dilute-nitride GaInAsN lasers are a good solution for low-cost un-cooled transmitters targeting short and medium distance optical communications in a wide range of applications, from supercomputers and server farms to metropolitan and access area networks.

Keywords

fibre lasers; gallium arsenide; indium compounds; nitrogen; optical transmitters; semiconductor materials; subscriber loops; transceivers; EU-FP6 project fast access; N-GaInAsN; access area networks; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; dilute-nitride-based edge-emitting Fabry-Perot lasers; medium distance optical communications; metropolitan area networks; optical link transmission experiments; optical transmitters; uncooled optical transceiver modules; wavelength 1300 nm; Gallium arsenide; Laboratories; Optical fiber communication; Optical network units; Optical sensors; Optical transmitters; Performance evaluation; Photonics; Radio frequency; Transceivers; 10 Gb/s large-signal modulation; 1300 nm; GaInNAs; dilute-nitride; un-cooled operation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Semiconductor Conference, 2008. CAS 2008. International

Conference_Location

Sinaia

ISSN

1545-827X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2004-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SMICND.2008.4703327

Filename

4703327