Two independent reports of directly modulated lasers with bandwidths of >60 GHz may help bring data rates beyond 200 Gb sā1 to low-cost optical communication systems. Key to the successes has been managing photonic feedback effects within the laser cavities.
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Troppenz, U., Kreissl, J. Designs break bandwidth record. Nat. Photonics 15, 4ā5 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-020-00739-x
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