High Speed Intra-Computing Optoelectronic Interconnect.

Abstract

The application of vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) technology to optical communications has been the most important new development in recent times. The VCSEL offers major advantages in low cost, low power, high speed, high reliability for optical communication applications. Because the VCSEL has a highly collimated emission pattern improving fiber coupling efficiency and simplifying alignment, this new device family overcomes the limitations of conventional edge emitting lasers. This objective of the program has been to develop, VCSEL array transmitters and optical receivers to be used in data links for military and commercial applications. The results obtained in this program demonstrates that serial parallel arrays have the capability to transmit 10 Gbit/sec data rates in a quad array of VCSEL transmitters coupled by fiber to P-I-N optical receivers, with each of the four fiber optic links transmitting at 2.5 Gbit/sec, for distances up to 2 km.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 29, 1996
Accession Number
ADA306337

Entities

People

  • M. K. Kilcoyne

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Couplings
  • Data Links
  • Data Rate
  • Efficiency
  • Emission
  • High Reliability
  • Lasers
  • Optical Communications
  • Reliability
  • Surface Emitting Lasers
  • Transmitters
  • Transmitting

Readers

  • Integrated Circuit Design and Technology.
  • Phased Array Antenna Design.
  • Wave Propagation and Nonlinear Chaotic Dynamics.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Microelectronics