Distributed microwave effects in high speed semiconductor lasers

Author

Tauber, D. ; Spickermann, R. ; Nagarajan, R. ; Reynolds, T.E. ; Holmes, A.L., Jr. ; Bowers, J.E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., California Univ., Santa Barbara, CA, USA

fYear

1994

fDate

23-27 May 1994

Firstpage

49

Abstract

In this paper we analyze and experimentally show that high speed semiconductor lasers approximately 300 /spl mu/m long and operating at frequencies above 25 GHz should be treated as distributed electrical elements. The analysis and experiments indicate that the microwave propagation is lossy, slow wave and dispersive, and that these distributed effects have important implications for the use of directly modulated lasers in high speed optical links.<>

Keywords

equivalent circuits; laser theory; optical communication equipment; optical modulation; radiowave propagation; semiconductor device models; semiconductor lasers; 25 GHz; 300 micron; directly modulated lasers; distributed electrical elements; distributed microwave effects; high speed optical links; high speed semiconductor lasers; microwave propagation; Dispersion; Frequency; Masers; Microwave propagation; Optical fiber communication; Optical losses; Optical propagation; Propagation losses; Semiconductor lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Symposium Digest, 1994., IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA, USA

ISSN

0149-645X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1778-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSYM.1994.335364

Filename

335364