3:15-5:15 pm, November 5, 2022

Location: Meeting Room 4-C, Level 4, Conference Center Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China

Organizers
• Lianghui Chen, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Connie Chang-Hasnain, Berxel Photonics
• Perry Shum, Southern University of Science and Technology
• Dieter Bimberg, Bimberg Chinese-German Center for Green Photonics, CIOMP, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Lianshan Yan, Southwest Jiaotong University

Description
VCSELs are the light source of choice for a wide range of applications because of cost-effective manufacturing and testing, and user-friendly optical beams for system designs. They are widely deployed in short-reach data center interconnects, 3D sensing and LIDAR applications. Recent exciting progress include very high speed VCSELs at 106 Gbps per lane (via 53 Gbaud PAM4) arrays are under pilot runs. Novel design approaches allow decreased device heating and increased saturation currents. They are excellent choices for green photonics with <100 fJ/bit. The 3D sensing market stimulated 6”-wafer fabrication and testing, enabling mass production of high power-conversion efficiency (PCE), large emitter-count arrays. The emerging automotive LiDAR further leverages this development for high power density arrays, reaching now several kW/mm2.

In this rump session, we invite system application engineers, device researchers and manufacturing engineers to get together and discuss state-of-the-art VCSEL technologies, remaining device and systems challenges, synergies across different market segments. In particular, we seek thought-provoking presentations and discussions on promises and challenges, future directions and emerging applications of VCSELs.

Invited Speakers and Talk Titles:
• Dieter Bimberg, Bimberg Chinese-German Center for Green Photonics, CIOMP, Chinese Academy of Sciences, “VCSELs’ Opportunities and Challenges – Opening Remarks”
• Fumio Koyama, Tokyo Institute of Technology, “VCSEL Photonics for CPO Transceivers and LIDAR Applications”
• Chongjing Xie, Alibaba Cloud, “Applications of VCSELs in Data Centers”
• Xiaolu Song, Huawei, “Low Power Consumption VCSEL for Beyond 100G/Lane Short Reach Interconnects”
• Hongyan Fu, Tsinghua Berkeley Shenzhen Institute, Tsinghua University, “VCSELs for Optical Wireless Communications”
• Jiarui Fei, Hesai,”High Power VCSELs in LiDAR Applications: Opportunities and Challenges”
• Li Zhu, Deptrum, “Artificial Intelligence of Things: the next phase of 3D sensing”
• Xiaochi Chen, Vertilite. “VCSELs for automotive LiDAR applications”
• Jiaxing Wang, Berxel Photonics, “High contrast grating VCSEL for datacom and 3D sensing”
• Si-Cong Tian, Bimberg Chinese-German Center for Green Photonics, CIOMP, Chinese Academy of Sciences, “Single-mode, high-speed multi-aperture VCSELs”
• Anjin Liu, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, “Vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser with post-supported high-contrast grating”
• Shanting Hu, Beijing Insittue of Technology, “Transverse-Coupled-Cavity VCSEL with High Modulation Speed and Single Mode Operation for Long-distacne Link”
• Ping Chen, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, “Advances in GaN VCSELs”
• Connie Chang-Hasnain, Berxel Photonics, “Enabling a VCSEL Ecosystem and Closing remarks”
• Dieter Bimberg, Bimberg Chinese-German Center for Green Photonics, CIOMP, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Lianshan Yan, Southwest Jiaotong University

About ACP:
ACP is now one of the largest conferences in the Asia-Pacific region on photonics, optical communication and relevant technologies. This conference will be held in SUSTech, Shenzhen, China during 5-8 Nov 2022, which aims to promote interaction and exchange of various disciplines among professionals in academia and industry globally. More information can be found on http://www.acp2022.org. In addition, it also serves to turn technologies into industrial applications. ACP/IPOC 2022 is sponsored by OPTICA (formerly OSA), SPIE, IEEE Photonics Society, Chinese Optical Society (COS) and China Institute of Communications (CIC) and hosted by Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech). The IEEE Photonics Technology Letters (PTL) will publish a special issue featuring selected papers from the ACP/IPOC 2022. This special issue offers an opportunity to expand accepted papers into IEEE Photonics Technology Letter papers.