Uncooled high-temperature (130C) operation of single-mode packaged fiber optic transmitter and receiver at 1.2 GBit/s

We review data on the high temperature operation of a high speed data link operating at 1 micrometer wavelength. The single mode fiber packaged transmitter consists of an 'uncooled' high speed laser diode packaged with a commercial laser driver chip and operates at data rates up to 1.2 Gbit/s. The single mode fiber packaged receiver consists of a high speed photodiode packaged with a combination of a commercial transimpedance amplifier and a limiting amplifier. The link operates with high stability and very low error rates without an optical isolator. The maximum data rate and the minimum link sensitivity are currently limited by the electronic component design.