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VI Systems Ships First Circular VCSEL Arrays
The customized chip features 7 independent channels with data rates of up to 5 Gbit/s per channel. Operating at a wavelength of 850nm, the devices will be used for short reach data communication applications.
German firm VI Systems, a manufacturer of ultra-high speed optical components for data communications has introduced the first circular chip arrays of its Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser (VCSEL).
With 7 channels for data rates of up to 5 Gbit/s per channel, the operating wavelength of the VCSEL is specified with 850nm. The chip arrays are available in a ring like 6 + 1 channel configuration with one emitter in center.
The chip arrays are 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.
Target applications 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 at 28 Gbit/s are currently developed within Common Electrical Standard (CEI-25/28 Gbit/s), Fiber Channel 32 Gbit/s and Ethernet IEEE 40/100 Gbit/s as well as in a number of custom specific application.
VI System GmbH is a fabless developer and manufacturing company of optoelectronic components for communication, industrial and consumer applications based in Berlin, Germany. The firm is a spin-off from the Technical University of Berlin and the A. F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute in St. Petersburg, Russia. VI-Systems offers laser and photo detector semiconductor chips and modules for applications in optical data communications and related consumer markets.
