Parekh Devang, Zhang Bo, Zhao Xiaoxue, Yue Yang, Hofmann Werner, Amann Markus C, Willner Alan, Chang-Hasnain Connie J
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
Opt Express. 2010 Sep 27;18(20):20552-7. doi: 10.1364/OE.18.020552.
We report greatly enhanced transmission distance of multimode vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (MM-VCSELs) over standard single-mode fiber using optical injection locking. Transmission distance as high as 90 km is achieved at 10 Gb/s by frequency chirp inversion and higher order transverse mode suppression.