Noise characteristics of oxide-confined vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers

Author

Hermier, J.-P. ; Bramati, A. ; Khoury, A.Z. ; Josse, V. ; Giacobino, E. ; Schnitzer, P. ; Michalzik, R. ; Ebeling, K.J.

Author_Institution

Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France

Volume

37

Issue

1

fYear

2001

fDate

1/1/2001 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

87

Lastpage

91

Abstract

We demonstrate the possibility of generating intensity squeezed light with free-running or injected multimode vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser. Sub-shot-noise operation results from very strong anticorrelations between the transverse modes. The influence of the active media diameter on the amount of squeezing is analyzed

Keywords

laser noise; optical correlation; optical squeezing; semiconductor device noise; semiconductor lasers; surface emitting lasers; active media diameter; injected multimode vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser; intensity squeezed light generation; noise characteristics; oxide-confined vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers; sub-shot-noise operation; transverse modes; very strong anticorrelations; Fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Laser noise; Noise level; Optical noise; Quantum well lasers; Semiconductor device noise; 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

10.1109/3.892729

Filename

892729