Polarization instability and relative intensity noise in vertical‐cavity surface‐emitting lasers
作者:
D. V. Kuksenkov,
H. Temkin,
S. Swirhun,
期刊:
Applied Physics Letters
(AIP Available online 1995)
卷期:
Volume 67,
issue 15
页码: 2141-2143
ISSN:0003-6951
年代: 1995
DOI:10.1063/1.114746
出版商: AIP
数据来源: AIP
摘要:
We observe a polarization instability in circularly symmetric vertical‐cavity surface‐emitting lasers. A relatively long time, 3–5 ns, is required to establish a dominant polarization state. Under high‐speed digital modulation this leads to strong enhancement, 20–30 dB, in polarization resolved low‐frequency relative intensity noise. This polarization instability is accurately described by a simple rate‐equation model. A similar increase in relative intensity noise, under dc bias, is caused by energy partition between orthogonally polarized modes. ©1995 American Institute of Physics.
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