Short-wavelength vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser applications:  from high-throughput multimode fiber links to two-dimensional interchip interconnections

Rainer Michalzik; Roger King; Felix Mederer; Max Kicherer; Giorgio Giaretta; Karl Joachim Ebeling

doi:10.1117/1.1384883

1 July 2001 Short-wavelength vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser applications: from high-throughput multimode fiber links to two-dimensional interchip interconnections

Rainer Michalzik, Roger King, Felix Mederer, Max Kicherer, Giorgio Giaretta, Karl Joachim Ebeling

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 40, Issue 7, (July 2001). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.1384883

An overview is given of recent experiments employing 850 or 980 nm emission wavelength vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser diodes (VCSELs) for high-throughput very short reach optical data transmission. For future high-speed building backbones, we demonstrate the first transport of 40 Gbit/s data rates over 300 m of a new generation multimode fiber by means of a four-channel coarse wavelength-division multiplexing system. As an attractive route to overcoming high-speed electrical signaling problems on printed circuit boards, we show 10 Gbit/s per channel data transmission for densely spaced integrated polymer waveguides. Error-free VCSEL operation at 2.5 Gbit/s with a temperature range from -20 to +100°C indicates compatibility with most industrial requirements. Finally, we demonstrate 850-nm bottom-emitting VCSEL arrays for direct flip-chip bonding, which might prove useful for twodimensional future silicon chip-to-chip interconnect solutions.

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Rainer Michalzik, Roger King, Felix Mederer, Max Kicherer, Giorgio Giaretta, and Karl Joachim Ebeling "Short-wavelength vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser applications: from high-throughput multimode fiber links to two-dimensional interchip interconnections," Optical Engineering 40(7), (1 July 2001). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.1384883

Published: 1 July 2001

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