Optical inverter using a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser with external light injection

Author

Onishi, Y. ; Nishiyama, N. ; Caneau, C. ; Koyama, F. ; Zah, C.E.

Author_Institution

Microsyst. Res. Center, Tokyo Inst. of Technol., Japan

Volume

2

fYear

2003

fDate

27-28 Oct. 2003

Firstpage

708

Abstract

In this paper, we present the measurement on the optical input-output characteristic of 1.55 μm InP based VCSELs with an external light injection either to its fundamental transverse mode or 1st-high-order transverse mode. It is shown that when the wavelength of the external light was set to be slightly longer than that of the mode, the abrupt modal switching, enabling the function of an optical inverter, was observed for both cases.

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; indium compounds; invertors; laser modes; optical information processing; optical logic; semiconductor lasers; surface emitting lasers; 1.55 micron; 1st-high-order transverse mode; InP; InP based VCSEL; external light injection; fundamental transverse mode; optical input-output characteristic; optical inverter; vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser; Fiber nonlinear optics; High speed optical techniques; Injection-locked oscillators; Inverters; Nonlinear optics; Optical filters; Optical polarization; Optical signal processing; Surface emitting lasers; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2003. LEOS 2003. The 16th Annual Meeting of the IEEE

ISSN

1092-8081

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7888-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.2003.1252997

Filename

1252997