Coupling of Polarization and Spatial Degrees of Freedom of Highly Divergent Emission in Broad-Area Square Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers

Babushkin, Ihar; Schulz-Ruhtenberg, Malte; Loĭko, N. A.; Huang, Kai–Feng; Ackemann, T.

doi:10.1103/physrevlett.100.213901

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“…Optical microcavities have great potential for applications in miniature lasers, biological sensors, optical telecommunications, and basic research in modern physics [31][32][33][34][35]. Largeaperture oxide-confined VCSELs, serving as an analogous quantum billiards, have been employed to explore quantum wave functions in mesoscopic systems [35,36].…”

Section: Lasing Modes In Vcselsmentioning

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Exploring the distinction between experimental resonant modes and theoretical eigenmodes: From vibrating plates to laser cavities

Tuan

Wen

et al. 2014

Phys. Rev. E

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Experimentally resonant modes are commonly presumed to correspond to eigenmodes in the same bounded domain. However, the one-to-one correspondence between theoretical eigenmodes and experimental observations is never reached. Theoretically, eigenmodes in numerous classical and quantum systems are the solutions of the homogeneous Helmholtz equation, whereas resonant modes should be solved from the inhomogeneous Helmholtz equation. In the present paper we employ the eigenmode expansion method to derive the wave functions for manifesting the distinction between eigenmodes and resonant modes. The derived wave functions are successfully used to reconstruct a variety of experimental results including Chladni figures generated from the vibrating plate, resonant patterns excited from microwave cavities, and lasing modes emitted from the vertical cavity.

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Section: Lasing Modes In Vcselsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring the distinction between experimental resonant modes and theoretical eigenmodes: From vibrating plates to laser cavities

Tuan

Wen

et al. 2014

Phys. Rev. E

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“…The light emitted by a VCSEL is,s in general polarized along one of the two crystallographic directions [110] or [110] because of crystal anisotropies, and since these anisotropies are weak, it is possible to control the state of emitted polarization. This is also true in broad-area devices [122], while the situation may be more complex for highly divergent modes in even larger devices [123]. In VCSELs with cylindrical symmetry, optical injection [124] or feedback [125,126] can be employed to control the polarization of light.…”

Section: Polarization Csmentioning

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Cavity Solitons in VCSEL Devices

Barbay

Kuszelewicz

Tredicce

2011

Advances in Optical Technologies

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We review advances on the experimental study of cavity solitons in VCSELs in the past decade. We emphasize on the design and fabrication of electrically or optically pumped broad-area VCSELs used for CSs formation and review different experimental configurations. Potential applications of CSs in the field of photonics are discussed, in particular the use of CSs for all-optical processing of information and for VCSELs characterization. Prospects on self-localization studies based on vertical cavity devices involving new physical mechanisms are also given.

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“…It has been recently observed that the spatial morphologies of high-order transverse modes in broad-area VCSELs are strongly related to the directions of their polarization states [15], [16]. In the investigation of broad-area square-shaped VCSELs, two orthogonally polarized components near lasing threshold are found to be locked in the same single frequency at temperatures less than 280 K [17].…”

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The Influences of Boundary Shapes on Polarization Characteristics and Lasing Modes in Broad-Area Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers With Cryogenic Detuning: Regular Versus Chaotic Cavities

Tuan

Chiang

et al. 2015

IEEE J. Select. Topics Quantum Electron.

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The broad-area rectangular-shaped and stadiumshaped VCSELs with nearly the same aspect ratio are designed to explore the influence of lateral boundary shapes on polarization states and lasing spectra with large detuning by cryogenic cooling. For the rectangular-shaped VCSEL, the lasing modes usually exhibit linearly polarized state and their far-field emissions mainly concentrate on four diagonal directions. On the other hand, the lasing modes of the stadium-shaped VCSEL generally display two orthogonally polarized states and their far-field emissions extensively spread on azimuthal directions. More intriguingly, the lasing spectra of the two devices clearly manifest the features of the energy-level distribution in regular and chaotic quantum billiards, respectively.

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Coupling of Polarization and Spatial Degrees of Freedom of Highly Divergent Emission in Broad-Area Square Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers

Cited by 25 publications

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Exploring the distinction between experimental resonant modes and theoretical eigenmodes: From vibrating plates to laser cavities

Exploring the distinction between experimental resonant modes and theoretical eigenmodes: From vibrating plates to laser cavities

Cavity Solitons in VCSEL Devices

The Influences of Boundary Shapes on Polarization Characteristics and Lasing Modes in Broad-Area Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers With Cryogenic Detuning: Regular Versus Chaotic Cavities

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