InP — the dream, the reality and the roadmap

✍ Scribed by Gail Purvis

• Book ID: 104366779
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 370 KB
• Volume: 16
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0961-1290
• DOI: 10.1016/s0961-1290(03)80512-4

✦ Synopsis

In the plenary session of the Indium Phosphide and Related Materials conference at Santa Barabara in May, an overview was given on the state of the art for InP and its relations. Lucent Technologies' Martin Zirngibl, director of the photonics networking department at Bell Laboratories touched on the depressed telecom sector impact on InP but pointed out recovery depends on cost effective InP components and integrated subsystems. He urged continued R&D and a wish list including a stable component business model. For Henning Riechert, head of Corporate Research Photon&, InGaAsN/GaAs has shown the best performance amongst 1.3pmVCSELs. It reached reality as well as holding future promise. (InP based long wavelength VCSELs show promise at 1.55um range). The team paper discussed the 1.3um device packaged in a smaRTSSOP