MEMS tunable 1550-nm high contrast grating VCSEL

Author

Rao, Y. ; Chase, C. ; Huang, M.C.Y. ; Khaleghi, S. ; Chitgarha, M.R. ; Ziyadi, M. ; Worland, D.P. ; Willner, A.E. ; Chang-Hasnain, C.J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Univ. of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA

fYear

2012

fDate

7-10 Oct. 2012

Firstpage

40

Lastpage

41

Abstract

We report monolithic, tunable 1550-nm HCG-VCSELs with 16.5 nm continuous mechanical tuning. 7.5 GHz -3dB bandwidth, room-temperature CW power >;3.3 mW, 80 Gbps QPSK and 40-Gbps DPSK fiber transmission under external modulation are demonstrated.

Keywords

differential phase shift keying; diffraction gratings; fibre lasers; laser tuning; micro-optics; micromechanical devices; optical modulation; quadrature phase shift keying; semiconductor lasers; surface emitting lasers; wavelength division multiplexing; DPSK fiber transmission; MEMS; QPSK fiber transmission; WDM system; bit rate 40 Gbit/s; bit rate 80 Gbit/s; continuous mechanical tuning; external modulation; frequency 7.5 GHz; high-contrast grating VCSEL; monolithic tunable HCG-VCSEL; room-temperature CW power; semiconductor lasers; temperature 293 K to 298 K; wavelength 1550 nm; wavelength-division-multiplexed systems; Differential phase shift keying; Micromechanical devices; Optical fiber networks; Phase shift keying; Tuning; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Semiconductor Laser Conference (ISLC), 2012 23rd IEEE International

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

ISSN

0899-9406

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0828-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISLC.2012.6348324

Filename

6348324