High performance vertical cavity laser, diriver, and receiver arrays for optical interconnects

摘要

massively parallel optical interconnects are appropriate to ease the data bandwidth bottleneck that will occur in future computing applications. Vertical cavity surface emitging laser (VCSELs) are promising sources for emerging 2-dimensional optical systems such as free space and guided wave optical interconnects. We discuss the development of high perfomance VCSEL arrays, including individually addressable and matrix addressable arrays. We also show the characteristics of GaAs microelectronic driver and photoreceiver chips that have been designed to interface with Si-based CMOS circuitry. Finally, the potential of these source and receiver modules for use in free space or guided wave parallel channel optical interconnect architectures will be described.