Abstract
With the increasing development of cloud services, a large number of high-speed optical interconnects are needed in large-scale datacenters. Future datacenters will require short-range links with multi-Tb/s interconnect capacity, i.e. more than an order of magnitude higher than what is available today with vertical-cavity surface-emission lasers (VCSELs) or silicon photonics. In addition, large-scale datacenters will require longer (> 1km) transmission links. Single-mode GaAs VCSELs today provide transmission speeds ~ 100 Gb/s, close to their fundamental limit. The recent development of high-speed GaAs VCSELs at a slightly longer wavelength of 1-µm opens a path forward for low-energy dissipation, high-speed, long-reach optical interconnects because the chromatic dispersion and attenuation in fibers are significantly reduced compared to shorter wavelengths [1].
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