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CMOS circuits for VCSEL-based optical IO
… for an input current of 200uA. The presented VCSEL driver operates a standard commercial GaAs VCSEL at 18Gb/s by using pre-emphasis to compensates for the large capacitance and intrinsic optical dynamics of the VCSEL. The driver derives timing information directly from the full-rate input data …
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Fabrication and characterization of VCSEL based smart pixels
Vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL)-based smart pixel arrays are very well suited for parallel optoelectronic processing and board-to-board interconnection. The integration of VCSELs with foundry fabricated integrated circuits is the key technology required to fabricate the smart pixels …
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High Capacity VCSEL Array Based Optical Wireless Links
… thesis, Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers (VCSEL) are employed in laser-based OWC systems due to their compatible eye-safe working wavelengths within the near-infrared range, lower cost, and easy large-scale two-dimensional chip fabrication compared to other laser sources. The main …
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Position and velocity sensing measurements using an integrated VCSEL and pin photodetector assembly
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Signal modulation and relative intensity noise properties of transistor laser and nano-cavity VCSEL
… and laser RIN from the investigation of VCSELs. We have demonstrated the small cavity oxide confined 850 nm VCSEL with ultra-low laser RIN and 40 Gb/s error-free data transmission. By shrinking the optical modal dimension further, the laser RIN is reaching the thermal limit. These …
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Vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) for 50Gb/s NRZ optical link in data center
… Vertical-cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers (VCSELs) at 850 nm have been widely deployed in optical data transmission as the optical transmitters. However, the data transmission capability of commercial VCSELs used in 100 m optical links with direct non-return-to-zero (NRZ) modulation has been …
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Coherently coupling multiple elements in vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser arrays
Vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) arrays with three or more emitters coherently coupled are the focus of this work. VCSEL arrays have many established applications and reliable coherent VCSEL arrays are a next step in their progression. The key innovation of this work is individual …
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Semiconductor Laser Device-Level Characteristics
… of the Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser (VCSEL), Distributed Feedback (DFB), and Fabry-Pérot (FP) lasers. The measurements of the DC characteristics are optical power versus drive current (L-I) curves (DFB, VCSEL) and optical spectra (FP, DFB, VCSEL). In addition, the high-speed optical …
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Numerical Simulation of Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers
… of vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs), the semiconductor laser simulator Minilase has been extended to allow simulation of VCSEL devices. The fundamental physics of VCSELs are no different from the physics of other semiconductor lasers; however, the approximation of a closed …
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Coherent laser arrays from bottom-surface vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers
Vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) are among the best choices for high beam quality semiconductor lasers. By designing a VCSEL array for uniform current injection and having the output coupler on the substrate side of the laser cavity, the laser will more easily operate in the …
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Heterogeneously bonded vertical cavity surface emitting lasers and thermal modeling
… vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs) onto hybrid substrates is demonstrated. This approach provides flexibility regarding the choice of device fabrication and hybrid substrate materials. Light output versus injected current and applied voltage characteristics of lasers are …
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A Comprehensive Study of Hybrid Vertical -Cavity Surface -Emitting Lasers
The high frequency modulation response for hybrid VCSELs is measured and compared to the theoretical response of the VCSEL derived through small signal analysis, with good agreement. For the two single mode structure wafers measured, the VCSELs with the implant aperture located farther away from …
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Design and fabrication of vertical external cavity surface-emitting lasers
… of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs). After the structure and operation of a VCSEL is overviewed, the fabrication of an oxide-confined VCSEL will be detailed. The VCSEL wafers’ epitaxial structures have a variation in their doping concentration profile in the p-type distributed …
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Coherently-coupled vertical-cavity laser arrays
… vertical cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) arrays offer a unique approach to beam steering and high-radiance applications, and have many advantages such as small size, low cost, high speed, durability and manufacturing ease. Previous work on coherently-coupled VCSEL arrays has left …
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Modulation of coherently coupled surface-emitting laser arrays: analysis and applications
Vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) have become the dominant source for optical data communication links in computer server, data center, and super computer applications. Driven by the exponential increase of performance in information technology, data centers, and computational power, …
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Development of high speed vertical cavity surface-emitting semiconductor diode laser and transistor laser
… vertical cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) is able to show a high modulation bandwidth as well as single-mode operation; however, because of the small oxide aperture (< 3 µm), a microcavity VCSEL shows high resistance and low optical power. An 850 nm oxide-confined VCSEL with an …
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Static and Dynamic Properties of Vertical -Cavity Surface -Emitting Lasers
… by measuring the static properties of an oxide VCSEL as a function of fiber position and correlating the data to theoretical results using a vector mode-matching method which includes the fiber in the modelled structure. A novel method for estimating the linewidth enhancement factor in VCSELs is …
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Non-Hermitian aspects of coherently coupled vertical cavity laser arrays
… isolated vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) arrays have been studied both theoretically and experimentally. Because of the tunable gain/loss profile in the array, the coupled laser system is non-Hermitian in analogy with non-Hermitian quantum mechanics. The experimentally observed …
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