Abstract
New applications in sensing, automotive and on-board applications require vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) operating at high data rates up to very high ambient temperatures. We study temperature stability of the 850 nm Quantum-Dot (QD) VCSELs and benchmark them to Quantum-Well (QW) VCSELs of similar design. QD VCSELs enable extension of the temperature stability and demonstrate threshold currents below 1 mA for operation range from 30°C to 200°C. The role of gain to cavity detuning is discussed in details. 25 Gbit/s NRZ multi-mode fiber transmission with QD VCSELs is realized at temperatures up to 180°C. Pulsed operation of QD VCSELs with 8 μm oxide aperture diameter is studied at temperatures from 30°C to 125°C and 1 W peak power is realized on 100 ns pulses at room temperature.
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