High speed VCSELs for optical interconnects [Elektronische Ressource] / vorgelegt von Alex Mutig

High Speed VCSELs for Optical Interconnectsvorgelegt vomDiplom-Physiker Alex Mutigaus Semipalatinskvon der Fakultät II - Mathematik und Naturwissenschaftender Technischen Universität Berlinzur Erlangung des akademischen GradesDoktor der NaturwissenschaftenDr. rer. nat.genehmigte DissertationPromotionsausschuss:Vorsitzender: Prof. Dr. Andreas KnorrBerichter/Gutachter: Prof. Dr. Dieter Bimberg Prof. Dr. Shun Lien Chuang (University of Illinois)Tag der wissenschaftlichen Aussprache: 15.07.2010Berlin 2010D 83To my grandfather Omar BaizaurovIIIAbstractThe forecast for the serial transmission speeds used for data communication systems is acontinued exponential increase with time, directly in concert with silicon integrated circuitscaling and in response to human society’s perpetual hunger for massive increases inbandwidth. Electrical interfaces for single channel bit rates beyond 10 Gbit/s are beingstandardized for a variety of applications, including for example (with an expected data-rate):Fibre Channel FC32G (34 Gbit/s), InfiniBand (20 Gbit/s), common electrical interface CEI(25-28 Gbit/s), and universal serial bus protocols USB 3.0 (up to 25 Gbit/s). As a result, thefundamental electro-magnetic limitations of copper wire-based links at bit rates >10 Gbit/smake fiber based optics for data communication indispensable at distances >1 m. At shorterdistances, problems associated with electrical transmission lines at such high frequencies, e. g.