High Speed Directly Modulated Fabry-Perot Lasers With an Ultra-Short Cavity Length

Abstract

In this study, Fabry-Perot quantum well lasers with shortened cavity designs (25 and 50 mu m) were fabricated. The devices had dry-etched and cleaved facets and exhibited an output power of up to 2.36 mW for a cavity length of 25 mu m; good spectral performance was achieved. Single-optical-mode operation with better than 25dB of side mode suppression ratio can be achieved for the fabricated devices with 25- and 50-mu m cavities. The short-cavity devices also exhibited highspeed modulation at elevated temperatures. Moreover, 25 Gb/s eye diagrams could be obtained at 65oC for the 25 mu m device and 55oC for the 50 mu m device. Due to their small area, ultra-shortcavity Fabry-Perot laser can be suitably used in next-generation light sources for optical communication.