Polarized optical feedback from an extremely short external cavity for controlling and stabilizing the polarization of vertical cavity surface emitting lasers

The authors present experimental results showing that polarization selective optical feedback from an extremely short external cavity induces switching between the two fundamental transverse modes with orthogonal linear polarization of the otherwise without optical feedback polarization stable verti...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Arizaleta Arteaga, Mikel, Parriaux, Olivier, López-Amo Sáinz, Manuel, Thienpont, Hugo, Panajotov, Krassimir
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2007
País:España
Institución:Universidad San Jorge (USJ)
Repositorio:Academica-e. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad Pública de Navarra
OAI Identifier:oai:academica-e.unavarra.es:2454/36024
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2454/36024
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Magnetic hysteresis
Optical devices
Optical fibers
Lasers
Chemical reactions
Birefringence
Photodetectors
Wave propagation
Optical resonators
Electrical properties and parameters
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Sumario:The authors present experimental results showing that polarization selective optical feedback from an extremely short external cavity induces switching between the two fundamental transverse modes with orthogonal linear polarization of the otherwise without optical feedback polarization stable vertical cavity surface emitting laser. Moreover, when properly selecting the external cavity length within a subwavelength range the polarization state of the emitted light can be chosen in either of the two fundamental transverse modes and stabilized against injection current variations. The numerical results reported are in good agreement with experiments.