Polarization switching and injection locking in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers subject to parallel optical injection

被引：29

作者：

Quirce, Ana ^{[1
]}

Perez, Pablo ^{[2
]}

Popp, Alexandra ^{[2
]}

Valle, Angel ^{[2
]}

Pesquera, Luis ^{[2
]}

Hong, Yanhua ^{[3
]}

Thienpont, Hugo ^{[1
]}

Panajotov, Krassimir ^{[1
,4
]}

机构：

[1] Vrije Univ Brussel, Fac Engn Sci, Brussels Photon Team B PHOT, Pl Laan 2, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium

[2] Univ Cantabria, CSIC, Inst Fis Cantabria, E-39005 Santander, Spain

[3] Bangor Univ, Sch Elect Engn, Bangor LL57 1UT, Gwynedd, Wales

[4] Inst Solid State Phys, 72 Tzarigradsko,Chaussee Blvd, BU-1784 Sofia, Bulgaria

来源：

OPTICS LETTERS | 2016年 / 41卷 / 11期

关键词：

SEMICONDUCTOR-LASER; VCSELS; DIODE; CHAOS; MODE;

D O I：

10.1364/OL.41.002664

中图分类号：

O43 [光学];

学科分类号：

070207 ; 0803 ;

摘要：

Polarization switching in a long-wavelength vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) under parallel optical injection is analyzed in a theoretical and experimental way. For the first time, to our knowledge, we report experimentally a state in which injection locking of the parallel polarization and excitation of the free-running orthogonal polarization of the VCSEL are simultaneously obtained. We obtain very simple analytical expressions that describe both linear polarizations. We show that the power of both linear polarizations depend linearly on the injected power in such a way that the total power emitted by the VCSEL is constant. We perform a linear stability analysis of this solution to characterize the region of parameters in which it can be observed. Our measurements qualitatively confirm the previous theoretical predictions. (C) 2016 Optical Society of America

引用

页码：2664 / 2667

页数：4

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