Intra-cavity contacted vertical cavity laser arrays optimized for low current, high speed interconnect applications

Abstract

Experimental measurements of the performance of intra-cavity contacted vertical cavity lasers for short haul Gigabit data link applications are presented. At an output power of 1 mW these top-surface-emitting, sub-milliamp threshold lasers have bandwidths above 7 GHz while consuming only 10 mW of electrical power.