Instabilities in optically-pumped 1300nm dilute nitride spin-VCSELs: Experiment and theory

Author

Schires, Kevin ; Al Seyab, Rihab ; Hurtado, Antonio ; Korpijärvi, Ville-Markus ; Guina, Mircea ; Henning, Ian D. ; Adams, Michael J.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Essex, Colchester, UK

fYear

2012

fDate

23-27 Sept. 2012

Firstpage

870

Lastpage

871

Abstract

We report the first experimental observation of periodic oscillations in an optically spin-injected GaInNAs/GaAs 1300 nm VCSEL under CW pumping and operated at room temperature. We show that the stability of the VCSEL can be controlled with the pump ellipticity. 11 GHz periodic oscillations were observed with the device subject to circularlypolarized (left or right) optical pumping. The highest RF oscillation power was found with elliptically-polarized pumping with P = ±0.6. The simulation results using the SFM were in very good agreement with the experiments.

Keywords

gallium compounds; indium compounds; light polarisation; nitrogen compounds; optical pumping; surface emitting lasers; CW pumping; GaInNAs-GaAs; SFM; circularly polarized optical pumping; frequency 11 GHz; highest RF oscillation power; optically-pumped dilute nitride spin-VCSEL; periodic oscillations; temperature 293 K to 298 K; vertical cavity surface emitting lasers; wavelength 1300 nm; Optical polarization; Optical pumping; Optical reflection; Oscillators; Pump lasers; Radio frequency; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photonics Conference (IPC), 2012 IEEE

Conference_Location

Burlingame, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0731-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IPCon.2012.6359270

Filename

6359270