Electro-Absorption-Modulated Lasers (EML)

At a Glance

  • High speed InGaAlAs EML transmitter chips for direct detection schemes

Features

  • Wavelengths in O-Band, C-Band, L-Band
  • Modulation bandwidth > 50 GHz
  • Operation up to 100 Gb/s NRZ, 200 Gb/s PAM4
  • Small footprint
  • Single chips and 4-arrays, 8-arrays
  • Monolithically integrated amplifier section as high power option
  • Typical operation temperature: 50°C
  • Extended operation temperature: 20°C to 85°C
  • fully customizable

Applications

  • Datacom / Telecom
  • Analog photonic transmitter
  • CATV

Device Variants

  • Individual EML with small footprint 360 μm x 250 μm
  • EML with integrated semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA)
  • N-fold EML-arrays with on-chip RF routing

Typical Performance

  • > 10 mW facet output power
  • > 50 GHz modulation bandwidth @50°C
Typical performance
Typical performance