High-speed transmissions with direct-modulation room-temperature semiconductor lasers emitting in the transparency window around 4 μm
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Spitz, O.; Durupt, L.; Didier, P.; Diaz-Thomas, D. A.; Cerutti, L.; Baranov, A. N.; Carras, M.; Grillot, F.
- Source
- 2021 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC) Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2021. :1-3 Jun, 2021
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Photonics and Electrooptics
Meters
Semiconductor lasers
Modulation
Real-time systems
Optical fiber communication
Quantum cascade lasers
Fiber lasers
- Language
We experimentally realize a free-space transmission over one meter with room-temperature quantum cascade lasers and interband cascade lasers. With direct electrical modulation and raw analysis, the data-rate of the real-time transmission outperforms similar reported schemes.