Experimental evidence of single round-trip oscillation in polarization self-modulated vertical-cavity surface emitting lasers

G. Ropars; P. Langot; M. Brunel; M. Vallet; F. Bretenaker; A. Le Floch; K. D. Choquette

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Experimental evidence of single round-trip oscillation in polarization self-modulated vertical-cavity surface emitting lasers

G. Ropars, P. Langot, M. Brunel, M. Vallet, F. Bretenaker, A. Le Floch, K. D. Choquette

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Abstract

The polarizations and frequencies of the two eigenstates of a vertical cavity surface emitting laser with an external cavity containing a quarter-wave plate are theoretically and experimentally analyzed. It is shown that the polarizations of these eigenstates are fixed by the neutral axes of the quarter-wave plate. The optical pulses at a frequency equal to a half of the free spectral range of the external cavity, observed through a linear polarizer, are due to beats between the two eigenstates. All these features show that such polarization self-modulated lasers oscillate in a single round trip.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2661-2663
Number of pages	3
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	70
Issue number	20
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.118982
Publication status	Published - 19 May 1997
Externally published	Yes

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Experimental evidence of single round-trip oscillation in polarization self-modulated vertical-cavity surface emitting lasers

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