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Cheapest VCSELs?

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Conundrum
Mon Nov 28 2011, 09:55AM Print
Conundrum Registered Member #96 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 05:37PM
Location: CI, Earth
Posts: 4059
Hi all.

Link2

Is the cheapest I can find, unfortunately they are still £15 in small quantities.

Link2 on Greedbay.

The intended application is a free space Wi-Fi repeater which allows me to transfer wireless over >1 mile distances.

Any ideas?
-A

#include "anyone_got_a_dead_laser_mouse.h"
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klugesmith
Mon Nov 28 2011, 09:08PM
klugesmith Registered Member #2099 Joined: Wed Apr 29 2009, 12:22AM
Location: Los Altos, California
Posts: 1715
If you want 850 nm wavelength,
and optical power on the order of 1 mW,
you can get TO-can-packaged VCSELs from junk GBICs.
Link2

You want ones compliant with the more popular Ethernet and Fibre channel standards,
which use multimode fiber and "short"wave electro-optical parts for maximum distances on the order of 100 m.
Long-haul (10 km) standards use singlemode fiber and 1300 or 1550 nm,
but didn't use VCSELs last time I was paid to know such things (2002).

If you want, I'll send you a gigabit optical transceiver to play with.
For free space communication, I'm guessing you plan to replace the fiber-coupling lenses with telescope or binocular objectives. Got no idea what sort of optical power budget you can achieve at 1 mile, or how you will manage optical alignment.

-Rich
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Pinky's Brain
Mon Nov 28 2011, 09:42PM
Pinky's Brain Registered Member #2901 Joined: Thu Jun 03 2010, 01:25PM
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Just curious, why optical over two parabolic antennas and regular 2.4 or 5 GHz wifi?
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