Low-frequency fluctuations in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers with polarization selective feedback: experiment and theory

Author

Soriano, M.C. ; Yousefi, M. ; Danckaert, J. ; Barland, S. ; Romanelli, M. ; Giacomelli, G. ; Marin, F.

Author_Institution

Nat. Inst. for the Phys. of Matter, Florence, Italy

Volume

10

Issue

5

fYear

2004

Firstpage

998

Lastpage

1005

Abstract

We present theory and measurements on a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) biased close to its solitary threshold and subject to polarization selective external optical feedback. The system shows low-frequency fluctuations (LFF) in the selected polarization mode (PM). Below solitary laser threshold, the orthogonal PM remains silent, while it only responds after a dropout event in the main mode above threshold. Our calculations show good agreement with the measurements and identify a type of synchronization between the low-frequency dynamics of the two PMs.

Keywords

fluctuations; laser cavity resonators; laser feedback; light polarisation; surface emitting lasers; synchronisation; external optical feedback; low-frequency fluctuations; polarization mode; polarization selective feedback; solitary laser threshold; synchronization; vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers; Fluctuations; Laser feedback; Laser modes; Laser theory; Optical feedback; Physics; Polarization; Semiconductor lasers; Surface emitting lasers; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers; Low-frequency fluctuations (LFFs); optical feedback; semiconductor lasers; synchronization; vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1077-260X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JSTQE.2004.835325

Filename

1366372