Impact of the aperture diameter on the energy efficiency of oxide-confined 850 nm high speed VCSELs

Philip Moser; James A. Lott; Philip Wolf; Gunter Larisch; Hui Li; Nikolay N. Ledentsov; Dieter Bimberg

doi:10.1117/12.2002446

13 March 2013 Impact of the aperture diameter on the energy efficiency of oxide-confined 850 nm high speed VCSELs

Philip Moser, James A. Lott, Philip Wolf, Gunter Larisch, Hui Li, Nikolay N. Ledentsov, Dieter Bimberg

Proceedings Volume 8639, Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers XVII; 86390V (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2002446
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2013, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

A new record for energy-efficient oxide-confined 850 nm vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) particularly suited for optical interconnects is presented. Error-free performance at 25 Gb/s is achieved with only 56 fJ/bit of dissipated energy per quantum of information. The influence of the oxide-aperture diameter on the energy-efficiency of our VCSELs is determined by comparing the total and dissipated power versus the modulation bandwidth of devices with different aperture diameters. Trade-offs between various parameters such as threshold current, differential quantum efficiency, wall plug efficiency and differential resistance are investigated with respect to energy-efficiency. We show that our present single-mode VCSELs are more energy-efficient than our multimode ones.

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Philip Moser, James A. Lott, Philip Wolf, Gunter Larisch, Hui Li, Nikolay N. Ledentsov, and Dieter Bimberg "Impact of the aperture diameter on the energy efficiency of oxide-confined 850 nm high speed VCSELs", Proc. SPIE 8639, Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers XVII, 86390V (13 March 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2002446

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