Single-mode, 1 Gb/s operation of double-fused vertical-cavity lasers at 1.54 μm

Author

Blixt, P. ; Babic, D.I. ; Streubel, K. ; Margalit, N.M. ; Reynolds, T.E. ; Bowers, J.E.

Author_Institution

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

Volume

8

Issue

5

fYear

1996

fDate

5/1/1996 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

700

Lastpage

702

Abstract

We demonstrate and characterize single-mode fiber-optic transmission using vertical-cavity lasers operating at 1.54 μm. The experiments were performed with 10-μm diameter double-fused InGaAsP strain-compensated quantum-well vertical-cavity lasers that operate continuously at room temperature with a side-mode suppression-ratio of 35 dB under pseudorandom modulation at 1 Gb/s. The bit-error rate was 3/spl middot/10/sup -12/ after transmission through 6.4 km of standard single-mode fiber. The maximum bandwidth was 2.3 GHz at a bias of 5.0 mA. The spectral linewidth was less than 0.1 nm.

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; gallium arsenide; indium compounds; laser cavity resonators; laser modes; laser transitions; optical fibre subscriber loops; optical modulation; optical transmitters; quantum well lasers; spectral line breadth; 1 Gbit/s; 1.54 mum; 10 mum; 2.3 GHz; 5.0 mA; 6.4 km; InGaAsP; bias; bit-error rate; double-fused InGaAsP strain-compensated quantum-well vertical-cavity lasers; double-fused vertical-cavity lasers; fiber-to-the-curb; fiber-to-the-home; maximum bandwidth; pseudorandom modulation; room temperature; side-mode suppression-ratio; single-mode 1 Gb/s operation; single-mode fiber-optic transmission; spectral linewidth; Bandwidth; Current measurement; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Optical coupling; Optical fiber testing; Probes; Quantum well lasers; Temperature; Threshold voltage; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.491600

Filename

491600