• DocumentCode
    1243364
  • Title

    Pitchfork bifurcation polarisation bistability in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers

  • Author

    Kawaguchi, H. ; Hidayat, I.S. ; Takahashi, Y. ; Yamayoshi, Y.

  • Author_Institution
    Fac. of Eng., Yamagata Univ., Japan
  • Volume
    31
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    1995
  • fDate
    1/19/1995 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    109
  • Lastpage
    111
  • Abstract
    Pitchfork bifurcation polarisation bistability has been observed experimentally in a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser for the first time. All-optical flipflop operation has been successfully demonstrated by injecting the trigger light inputs having the two orthogonal polarisations
  • Keywords
    bifurcation; flip-flops; laser cavity resonators; laser stability; light polarisation; optical bistability; optical logic; optical switches; semiconductor lasers; VCSEL; all-optical flipflop operation; orthogonal polarisations; pitchfork bifurcation polarisation bistability; surface-emitting lasers; trigger light inputs; vertical-cavity SEL;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:19950060
  • Filename
    364363