Vector cavity solitons in broad area Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers

We report the experimental observation of two-dimensional vector cavity solitons in a Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser (VCSEL) under linearly polarized optical injection when varying optical injection linear polarization direction. The polarization of the cavity soliton is not the one of the o...

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Autores principales: Averlant, Etienne, Tlidi, Mustapha, Thienpont, Hugo, Ackemann, Thorsten, Panajotov, Krassimir
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4742781/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26847004
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep20428
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author Averlant, Etienne
Tlidi, Mustapha
Thienpont, Hugo
Ackemann, Thorsten
Panajotov, Krassimir
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description We report the experimental observation of two-dimensional vector cavity solitons in a Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser (VCSEL) under linearly polarized optical injection when varying optical injection linear polarization direction. The polarization of the cavity soliton is not the one of the optical injection as it acquires a distinct ellipticity. These experimental results are qualitatively reproduced by the spin-flip VCSEL model. Our findings open the road to polarization multiplexing when using cavity solitons in broad-area lasers as pixels in information technology.
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spelling pubmed-47427812016-02-09 Vector cavity solitons in broad area Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers Averlant, Etienne Tlidi, Mustapha Thienpont, Hugo Ackemann, Thorsten Panajotov, Krassimir Sci Rep Article We report the experimental observation of two-dimensional vector cavity solitons in a Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser (VCSEL) under linearly polarized optical injection when varying optical injection linear polarization direction. The polarization of the cavity soliton is not the one of the optical injection as it acquires a distinct ellipticity. These experimental results are qualitatively reproduced by the spin-flip VCSEL model. Our findings open the road to polarization multiplexing when using cavity solitons in broad-area lasers as pixels in information technology. Nature Publishing Group 2016-02-05 /pmc/articles/PMC4742781/ /pubmed/26847004 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep20428 Text en Copyright © 2016, Macmillan Publishers Limited http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep20428
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