Optical injection dynamics of two-mode vertical cavity surface-emitting semiconductor lasers

Y. Hong; Paul S. Spencer; P. Rees; K. Alan Shore

doi:10.1109/3.985568

Optical injection dynamics of two-mode vertical cavity surface-emitting semiconductor lasers

Y. Hong, Paul S. Spencer, P. Rees, K. Alan Shore

Houston Methodist

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Abstract

Two-mode vertical cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) subject to external optical injection are investigated experimentally. The spectrum of a VCSEL with two parallel-polarized modes demonstrates significantly different behavior compared to that of a VCSEL with two orthogonally-polarized transverse modes. In the latter, external optical injection can be used to achieve single-mode operation. However, in the case of two parallel-polarized transverse modes, VCSEL single-mode operation cannot be obtained via optical injection. In this case, when the injection frequency is close to one of the modes, the coexistence of the injected beam and that mode gives rise to very rich dynamical behavior; however, the other mode is unperturbed by the optical injection.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	274-278
Number of pages	5
Journal	IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics
Volume	38
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/3.985568
State	Published - Mar 2002

Keywords

Optical injection
Polarization
Transverse mode
VCSEL

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Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

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