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

Author

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

Author_Institution

Bangor Sch. of Informatics, Univ. of Wales, Bangor, UK

Volume

38

Issue

3

fYear

2002

fDate

3/1/2002 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

274

Lastpage

278

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

Keywords

laser beams; laser modes; light polarisation; multiwave mixing; semiconductor lasers; surface emitting lasers; VCSEL; dynamical behavior; external optical injection; injection frequency; optical injection dynamics; orthogonally-polarized transverse modes; parallel-polarized modes; parallel-polarized transverse modes; single-mode operation; two-mode vertical cavity surface-emitting semiconductor lasers; High speed optical techniques; Nonlinear optics; Optical attenuators; Optical bistability; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Optical mixing; Semiconductor lasers; Surface emitting lasers; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9197

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/3.985568

Filename

985568