• DocumentCode
    1779113
  • Title

    Polarization switching and bistability in a 1300 nm spin-VCSEL subject to circularly polarized optical injection

  • Author

    Alharthi, S.S. ; Hurtado, A. ; Korpijarvi, V.-M. ; Guina, M. ; Henning, I.D. ; Adams, M.J.

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Essex, Colchester, UK
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    12-16 Oct. 2014
  • Firstpage
    95
  • Lastpage
    96
  • Abstract
    We report the first experimental observation of different forms of polarization switching and bistability in an optically injected 1300nm dilute nitride spin-VCSEL and for both (right- and left-) circularly polarized modes of the device.
  • Keywords
    laser modes; light polarisation; optical bistability; optical switches; semiconductor lasers; surface emitting lasers; bistability; dilute nitride spin-VCSEL; left-circularly polarized modes; optical injection; polarization switching; right-circularly polarized modes; wavelength 1300 nm; Optical amplifiers; Optical bistability; Optical filters; Optical polarization; Optical pumping; Stimulated emission; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Photonics Conference (IPC), 2014 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    San Diego, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IPCon.2014.6995228
  • Filename
    6995228