Polarization effects in Optically-Injected Long-Wavelength Vertical-Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers

Author

Hurtado, Antonio ; Al-Seyab, Rihab ; Schires, Kevin ; Khan, Nadir ; Alexandropoulos, Dimitris ; Henning, Ian D. ; Adams, Michael J.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Essex, Colchester, UK

fYear

2011

fDate

26-30 June 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

We present our work studying the effects of polarized optical injection in Long-Wavelength Vertical-Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers (LW-VCSELs). The properties of the polarization switching (PS) and bistability (PB) arising in these devices under orthogonally-polarized optical injection are discussed. We also review our experimental and theoretical analyses on the injection locking and nonlinear dynamics that appear in LW-VCSELs under different polarized injection. Finally, we also report the instabilities induced in spin-polarized VCSELs. This rich variety of nonlinear effects observed at the important telecom wavelength of 1550 nm offers exciting prospects for the practical use of VCSELs in novel applications in optical networks.

Keywords

laser stability; light polarisation; semiconductor lasers; surface emitting lasers; long wavelength vertical cavity surface emitting lasers; orthogonally polarized optical injection; polarization bistability; polarization switching; wavelength 1550 nm; Integrated optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical attenuators; Optical bistability; Optical polarization; Optical pumping; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers; Vertical-Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers (VCSELs); injection locking and nonlinear dynamics; optical injection; polarization switching; spin-VCSELs;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2011 13th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Stockholm

ISSN

2161-2056

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0881-7

Electronic_ISBN

2161-2056

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2011.5970792

Filename

5970792