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8 September 2004 Toward redundant 2D VCSEL arrays for optical datacom
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We have developed technologies that bring functional redundancy to flip-chip mounted 850nm backside-emitting high-speed VCSEL arrays with 250μm channel pitch. A self-aligned dry-etch process results in vertical mesa sidewalls facilitating extremely narrow gaps as small as 2μm between adjacent mesas, and even smaller gaps seem possible with this technology. Very dense intra-cell arrangements of oxide-confined circular and pie-shaped VCSELs were fabricated with minimal current aperture center-to-center distances of 20μm and 17μm, respectively. The paper also gives a first theoretical approximation of the additional coupling loss introduced by the inevitable radial VCSEL--fiber displacement for a 10μm VCSEL coupling into a standard 50μm fiber channel under varying offset launch conditions. We also present 4x8 and 8x8 regular arrays directly hybridized onto silicon carrier chips by means of an indium solder based flip-chip technology. The elimination of thermal bottlenecks by direct mesa bonding cuts the thermal resistance by half to about 1.3K/mW for 10μm devices as compared to offset-bonded devices.
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Hendrik Roscher and Rainer Michalzik "Toward redundant 2D VCSEL arrays for optical datacom", Proc. SPIE 5453, Micro-Optics, VCSELs, and Photonic Interconnects, (8 September 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.544867
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KEYWORDS
Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers

Indium

Resistance

Oxidation

Standards development

Silicon

Fiber couplers

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