Microlasers for photonic switching and interconnection

Yong H. Lee; Jack L. Jewell; Juergen Jahns; Axel Scherer; James P. Harbison; Leigh T. Florez

doi:10.1117/12.34928

1 July 1990 Microlasers for photonic switching and interconnection

Yong H. Lee, Jack L. Jewell, Juergen Jahns, Axel Scherer, James P. Harbison, Leigh T. Florez

Proceedings Volume 1319, Optics in Complex Systems; (1990) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.34928
Event: 15th International Optics in Complex Systems, 1990, Garmisch, Germany

Abstract

Vertical-cavity, surface-emitting lasers have great potential owing to their inherent two-dimensional geometry and very small gain nedium volumes which are essential to low threshold currents. Possible applications are optical switching/computing, photonic interconnection, high/low power laser sources, image processing, optical neural networks, etc. Driven by these high promises, there have been numerous reports on vertical cavity surface emitting laser diodes using InGaAs/GaAs/A1As, GaAs/AlGaAs structures16. In this paper, we report characteristics of discrete InGaAs microlasers and monolithic two-dimensional arrays of microlasers. The advantages of optics for communications of data over distances longer than nearby gates have been argued previously7. We proposed and demonstrated a photonic interconnect scheme using microlasers with planar optics which will be robust, accurate, and easily alignable.

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Yong H. Lee, Jack L. Jewell, Juergen Jahns, Axel Scherer, James P. Harbison, and Leigh T. Florez "Microlasers for photonic switching and interconnection", Proc. SPIE 1319, Optics in Complex Systems, (1 July 1990); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.34928

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