Daly, A,Gierl, C,Grundl, T,Grasse, C,Zogal, K,Carey, D,Townsend, P,Amann, MC,Meissner, P,Corbett, B

2012

January

Electronics Letters

10 Gbit/s transmission over 50 km of SMF using MEMS tunable VCSEL

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A widely tunable vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) with an integrated mirror has been externally modulated in transmission experiments demonstrating error-free transmission over 50 km in singlemode optical fibre at 10 Gbit/s over a 30 nm tuning range. A penalty of 0.2 dB was measured when compared with a tunable external cavity laser which was due to residual membrane movement in the unpackaged VCSEL.

DOI 10.1049/el.2012.0405