All-optical polarization controller using elliptical-apertured 1.5 μm VCSEL

Author

Hasebe, Koichi ; Koyama, Fumio ; Nishiyama, Nobuhiko ; Caneau, Catherine ; Zah, Chung-en

Author_Institution

Microsyst. Res. Center, Tokyo Inst. of Technol., Yokohama

fYear

2006

fDate

21-26 May 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We demonstrate an all-optical polarization controller using the injection-locking induced transverse-mode switching of 1.5 mum elliptical-apertured VCSEL. The polarization of an output fundamental-mode was stabilized even for randomly polarized input light injected into a high-order transverse mode.

Keywords

Q-switching; laser beams; laser modes; laser stability; light polarisation; optical control; semiconductor lasers; surface emitting lasers; all-optical polarization controller; elliptical-apertured VCSEL; fundamental mode; high-order transverse mode; injection locking; laser stabilization; randomly polarized input light; transverse-mode switching; wavelength 1.5 mum; Inverters; Laser modes; Optical buffering; Optical control; Optical fiber polarization; Optical polarization; Optical signal processing; Repeaters; Surface emitting lasers; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers; (140.3520) Lasers, injection-locked; (230.1150) All-optical device; (250.7260) Vertical cavity surface emitting laser; (999.9999) Polarization controller;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on

Conference_Location

Long Beach, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2006.4628418

Filename

4628418