BREDSELS' Objectives
The major objective of the ESPRIT IV Long Term Research project BREDSELS
(Bright Red Surface Emitting Lasers) was to overcome the technological
difficulties associated with the fabrication of
efficient, high power AlGaInP-based visible vertical cavity surface
emitting laser (VCSEL)
arrays. In particular the consortium wanted to develop modules comprising
of 1 × 8 VCSEL arrays lasing at 650 nm coupled, in a self-aligning
fashion, to a multimode plastic fibre ribbon. These modules would then in
principle form the basis of cheap, rugged and high data-rate
optical interconnects designed to operate at the attenuation minimum of low
cost plastic fibre, and that could be used in small area networks and
optical backplane applications.
The BREDSELS project officially came to an end on the 31st December 1999.
The paper presented below gives a summary of the work that arose out of the
BREDSELS project and shows that a considerable amount of progress was made
in the project. The BREDSELS project shows that red VCSELs do have a bright
future.
Development of a red VCSEL-to-plastic fibre module for use in parallel
optical data links, JD Lambkin, T Calvert, B Corbett, J Woodhead, SM
Pinches, A Onischenko, TE Sale, J Hosea, P Van Daele, K Vandeputte, A Van
Hove, A Valster, JG McInerney and PA Porta. SPIE Photonics West
2000, Optoelectronics 2000, Conference 3946: Vertical Cavity Surface
Emitting Lasers IV, San Jose, (26-28 Feb. 2000), Paper No. 20.
You can download the presentation in
PDF format.
