[PDF] Top 20 Polarization fluctuations in vertical-cavity semiconductor lasers

... The experimental setup is sketched in Fig. 2. To limit the external noise to the minimum, the VCSEL is enclosed in a temperature-stabilized box ~ stability ' 0.1 mK ! and driven by a stable current source ~ stability ' ... See full document

... Let us turn our attention to the general case of the nonlinear Eq. (4). We can simplify the analysis by neglecting the joint fluctuation of the term I E and replace the intensity with its mean value I in this term. This ... See full document

... output polarization was controlled with an in- line fibre polarization ...The polarization of the pump and that of the spin-VCSEL are both analyzed using the aforementioned free-space ...external ... See full document

... VCSELs have small size, are low cost, have high‐speed operation, have low power consumption, and can be fabricated into arrays [1,2]. These advantages cause VCSELs to attract much attention for use in photonics, e.g. ... See full document

... Vertical-cavity semiconductor optical amplifiers (VCSOAs) at ...inherent polarization insen- sitivity ...1.3-μm vertical-cavity ...in semiconductor heterostructure ... See full document

... are vertical cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) [4-6], vertical external cavity surface-emitting lasers [7,8], solar cells [8,9], edge-emitting lasers [10], pho- ... See full document

... Such bistable spots have been obtained for different linear polarization directions of the optical injection. This bistability has been experimentally proved using the instruments contained in the box denoted (1) ... See full document

... large diameters of 5-7 µm because longer wavelengths enable the transverse mode and polarization control easier. Also, this corresponds to the minimum dispersion and minimum loss in standard glass fiber at 1.3 µm ... See full document

... Dilute nitride III-V alloys are essential for today’s optoelectronic devices applications, such as lasers modulators, photodetectors and optical fibre communication systems. One potentially important material for ... See full document

... a semiconductor p-n junction in 1962 16 ...laser cavity was formed by cleaved or polished semiconductor surfaces providing the optical feedback, and the p-n junction was forward biased for external ... See full document

... non-uniform polarization distri- bution attracted a rapidly growing interest over the last years due to a combination of intrinsic appeal and beauty, novel fundamental aspects in quantum optics and newly enabled ... See full document

... vestigate polarization switches in vertical-cavity surface-emitting ...A polarization switch is described as an activation process in a two-dimensional nonequilibrium ... See full document

... cal stability analysis [22] to provide insight into the nature and evolution of the dynamics, together with numerical simulations targeted on specific regions of interest informed by experimen- tal observations. The ... See full document

... Note that in this paper, we concentrated on the electromagnetic/carrier kinetic model only, not considering the electrical circuit limitations. Indeed, Zujewski and co-authors have proved that the modulation speed ... See full document

... Spin-controlled vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) have been intensively studied in recent years because of the low threshold feasibility and the nonlinearity above threshold, which ... See full document

... central cavity mode multiplied by the cavity photon ...large cavity mode volume, is therefore a particularly sensi- tive semiconductor laser architecture for ...short cavity this ... See full document

... nonlinear polarization dynamics of a VCSEL emitting in the fundamental transverse ...the polarization state of the ...the polarization has been mapped to a four-dimensional Hamiltonian problem, and ... See full document

... Since it is known that the width (or even the apparent existence) of a hysteresis loop might depend on the ramping speed of the stress parameter due to phenomena like critical slowing- down (e.g. [52,53]), the existence ... See full document

... ␭ /4 wave plate, a ␭ /2 wave plate, and an optical Faraday isolator. The polarization-resolved intensity noise was first measured with a 6-GHz photoreceiver 共 New Focus 1534 兲 . In Fig. 1 the intensity noise of ... See full document

... most semiconductor lasers is positive, as the refractive index generally decreases with increasing population inversion; s and e are the linear phase and am- plitude anisotropies in angular frequency ... See full document