Phase dynamics in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers with delayed optical feedback and cross-polarized reinjection

Polarization dynamics in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers with optical feedback through a quarter-wave plate

Square-wave switching of the intensities of the orthogonal linearly polarized components of the output of a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser ~VCSEL! found previously in experiments with polarization-changing optical feedback, is not found in rate equation models incorporating only birefringence and gain anisotropy, but is found in the model for VCSELs developed by San Miguel, Feng, and Mo...

Transverse-mode dynamics in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers with optical feedback

M. S. Torre, C. Masoller, and Paul Mandel Instituto de Fı́sica ‘‘Arroyo Seco,’’ UNCPBA Pinto 399 (7000) Tandil, Argentina Instituto de Fı́sica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de la República, Igua 4225, Montevideo 11400, Uruguay Université Libre de Bruxelles, Optique Nonlinéaire Théorique, Campus Plaine Code Postale 231, B-1050 Bruxelles, Belgium ~Received 22 March 2002, revised manuscript rec...

Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers

The goal of this project was to increase the power of vertical cavity surface emitting lasers and to convert their wavelength into the blue/ultraviolet and the infrared for sensing applications. We have increased the power to the multi-watt level and have generated several milliwatts of blue light using optical pumping. Electrical pump has been less successful, but we have identified the proble...

Low-frequency fluctuations in vertical-cavity surface-emitting semiconductor lasers with optical feedback

We study the dynamics of a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser operating near threshold and with isotropic optical feedback, using a model developed by San Miguel, Feng, and Moloney @Phys. Rev. A 52, 1728 ~1995!#. The model couples the polarization state of the electric field to the semiconductor medium by including the magnetic sublevels of the conduction and valence bands in the quantum we...

Optical Injection Locking of Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers by