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17 August 2010

 

VI Systems ships first circular VCSEL arrays for datacoms

VI Systems GmbH of Berlin, Germany has started to ship to selected customers the first circular arrays of its vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs). The customized chip features seven independent channels with data rates of up to 5Gbit/s per channel, with VCSEL light emitters (with a specified operating wavelength of 850nm) arranged in a ring-like 6+1-channel configuration with one emitter in center.

Designed for wire-bonding as well as for flip-chip bonding, the VCSEL arrays can be contacted directly from the top and feature a high-speed pad layout.

Originally spun-out of the Technical University of Berlin and the A. F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute in St Petersburg, Russia, VI-Systems is a fabless developer and manufacturer of ultra-high-speed optoelectronic components, offering laser and photo-detector chips and modules for applications in optical data communications, industrial and consumer applications.

Target applications of the new circular VCSEL arrays are short-reach and very-short-reach optical receivers and transceiver modules used in optical communication networks as well in chip-to-chip optical interconnects in the computer industry. Future serial standards at data rates of 28Gbit/s are currently being developed within Common Electrical Interface (CEI-25/28Gbit/s), Fiber Channel 32Gbit/s  and Ethernet IEEE 40/100Gbit/s standards, as well as for a number of custom-specific applications.

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