Ultrafast polarization bistable switching in a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser and its applications

Author

Kawaguchi, Hitoshi ; Yamayoshi, Y.

Author_Institution

Fac. of Eng., Yamagata Univ., Yonezawa, Japan

fYear

1998

fDate

3-8 May 1998

Firstpage

439

Lastpage

440

Abstract

Summary form only given. We report ultrafast polarization bistable switching with a 7-ps switching time in a VCSEL by optical trigger pulses through the pitchfork bifurcation bistability. This is the fastest bistable switching to our knowledge. We also report the simulation of the optical demultiplexing with a signal-bitwidth conversion function using polarization bistable laser diodes (BLD)s. A VCSEL that consists of InGaAs active layers was used in the experiment.

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; bifurcation; gallium arsenide; high-speed optical techniques; indium compounds; laser cavity resonators; light polarisation; optical bistability; semiconductor lasers; surface emitting lasers; 7 ps; InGaAs; InGaAs active layers; optical demultiplexing; optical trigger pulses; pitchfork bifurcation bistability; polarization bistable laser diodes; ps switching time; signal-bitwidth conversion function; ultrafast polarization bistable switching; vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser; Bifurcation; Flip-flops; Optical bistability; Optical filters; Optical polarization; Optical pulses; Optical saturation; Surface emitting lasers; Ultrafast optics; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1998. CLEO 98. Technical Digest. Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-339-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.1998.676469

Filename

676469