Very wide temperature (-20-95/spl deg/C) operation of an uncooled 2.5 Gbit/s 1300 nm DFB laser

• Published in: LEOS 2001. 14th Annual Meeting of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (Cat. No.01CH37242) Vol. 2; pp. 796 - 797 vol.2
• Main Authors: Silver, M., Booij, W.E., Malik, S., Galbraith, A., Uppal, S., McBrien, P.F., Berry, G.M., Ryder, P.D., Chandler, S.J., Atkin, D.M., Harding, R., Ash, R.M.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 2001
• Subjects: Bandwidth; Connectors; Laser noise; Optical distortion; Optical filters; Resonance; Resonant frequency; Temperature distribution; Temperature measurement; Transceivers

We have developed a 1300 nm InGaAsP MQW DFB laser which, due to its high temperature and speed performance, enables small-form-factor transceiver modules to operate at 2.5Gbit/s, uncooled, in a wide temperature range from -20 to 85 C.