Transverse modes, vortices and vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers

François Brown De Colstoun, Galina Khitrova, Alexander V. Fedorov, Tom R. Nelson, Curt Lowry, Tom M. Brennan, B. Gene Hammons, Paul D. Maker

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Abstract

Injection locking dramatically modifies the phase and transverse output intensity profile of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs). Injection can induce a VCSEL to emit a high-order transverse mode. Vortices are generated by three different methods: insertion of a helicoidal phase mask, interference of two Gaussian beams, and injection locking of the TEM01 and TEM10 modes of a VCSEL to form the TEM*01 donut mode. The first two methods stem from geometrical optics; the third method involves nonlinear mode competition in the laser cavity.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)1575-1596
Number of pages22
JournalChaos, solitons and fractals
Volume4
Issue number8-9
DOIs
StatePublished - 1994

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
  • General Mathematics
  • General Physics and Astronomy
  • Applied Mathematics

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