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

doi:10.1016/0960-0779(94)90098-1

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

Optical Sciences, College of

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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 language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1575-1596
Number of pages	22
Journal	Chaos, solitons and fractals
Volume	4
Issue number	8-9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0960-0779(94)90098-1
State	Published - 1994

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