Title :
Towards a monolithic cavity soliton laser
Author :
Elsass, Tiffany ; Barbay, Sylvain ; Gauthron, K. ; Beaudoin, G. ; Sagnes, I. ; Kuszelewicz, R.
Author_Institution :
Lab. de Photonique et de Nanostruct., Marcoussis, France
Abstract :
We propose an original design of a monolithic and integrated vertical cavity laser with saturable absorber and discuss experimental results showing the formation and fast writing/erasure of bistable laser spots.
Keywords :
laser cavity resonators; optical design techniques; optical fabrication; optical saturable absorption; optical solitons; quantum well lasers; surface emitting lasers; bistable laser spots; integrated vertical cavity laser; laser writing; monolithic cavity soliton laser; optical fabrication; saturable absorber; Absorption; Laser excitation; Laser feedback; Optical design; Pump lasers; Resonance; Semiconductor lasers; Solitons; Surface emitting lasers; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers; (140.5960) Semiconductor lasers; (190.4420) Nonlinear optics, transverse effects in; (190.6135) Spatial solitons;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2009 and 2009 Conference on Quantum electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2009. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-869-8
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-869-8
