TY - JOUR

T1 - Analysis of the Polarization of a Single-Mode VCSEL Subject to Parallel Optical Injection

AU - Quirce, Ana

AU - Popp, Alexandra

AU - Denis-Le Coarer, Florian

AU - Perez, Pablo

AU - Valle, Angel

AU - Pesquera, Luis

AU - Hong, Yanhua

AU - Thienpont, Hugo

AU - Panajotov, Krassimir

AU - Sciamanna, Marc

PY - 2017/2/1

Y1 - 2017/2/1

N2 - We investigate experimentally and theoretically the polarization switching found in a single-transversemode VCSEL when subject to parallel optical injection. Our analysis focuses on a recently observedstate in which injection locking of the parallel polarization and excitation of the free-running orthogonalpolarization of the VCSEL are obtained. A simple nonlinear dependence between the power of bothlinear polarizations and the frequency detuning is found. Also the total power emitted by the VCSELis constant and independent on the injected optical power and on the frequency detuning. We checkthese results experimentally for a variety of frequency detunings and bias currents applied to the device.We report experimental and theoretical stability maps in the injected power-frequency detuning planefor different bias currents identifying the regions in which the state is observed. A simple analyticalexpression that describes the map boundary for large and negative frequency detunings is obtained. Thisprovides a simple method to extract the linear dichroism of the device

AB - We investigate experimentally and theoretically the polarization switching found in a single-transversemode VCSEL when subject to parallel optical injection. Our analysis focuses on a recently observedstate in which injection locking of the parallel polarization and excitation of the free-running orthogonalpolarization of the VCSEL are obtained. A simple nonlinear dependence between the power of bothlinear polarizations and the frequency detuning is found. Also the total power emitted by the VCSELis constant and independent on the injected optical power and on the frequency detuning. We checkthese results experimentally for a variety of frequency detunings and bias currents applied to the device.We report experimental and theoretical stability maps in the injected power-frequency detuning planefor different bias currents identifying the regions in which the state is observed. A simple analyticalexpression that describes the map boundary for large and negative frequency detunings is obtained. Thisprovides a simple method to extract the linear dichroism of the device

U2 - 10.1364/JOSAB.34.000447

DO - 10.1364/JOSAB.34.000447

M3 - Article

VL - 34

SP - 447

EP - 455

JO - Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

JF - Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

SN - 0740-3224

IS - 2

ER -