Title :
Lasing emission patterns from Monza-shaped semiconductor microcavities
Author :
Nakae, Yutaka ; Miyasaka, Tomohiro ; Sasaki, Takahiko ; Shinohara, Susumu ; Harayama, Takahisa
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Nonlinear Sci., ATR Wave Eng. Labs., Seika
Abstract :
We fabricated Monza-shaped semiconductor microcavity lasers and evaluated their far-field characteristics. From the ray dynamical point of view, the Monza-shaped cavity belongs to a special class of fully chaotic cavities; its phase space is decomposed into two independent chaotic components, which yield two different emission patterns. In the present paper, we discuss which ensemble of ray trajectories (i.e., phase space measure) can reproduce far-field emission patterns observed in experiments.
Keywords :
laser beams; microcavity lasers; optical chaos; semiconductor lasers; Monza-shaped semiconductor microcavities; far-field emission patterns; lasing emission patterns; phase space; Chaos; Etching; Extraterrestrial measurements; Gallium arsenide; Gold; Microcavities; Phase measurement; Semiconductor lasers; Shape measurement; Substrates; Monza-shaped cavities; quantum chaos; semiconductor microcavity lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Transparent Optical Networks, 2008. ICTON 2008. 10th Anniversary International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Athens
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2625-6
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2626-3
DOI :
10.1109/ICTON.2008.4598784