Polarization-dependent intersubband absorption saturation and its effect on polarization selection in vertical cavity surface-emitting lasers

B S Ryvkin; E A Avrutin; M Pessa

doi:10.1063/1.1540745

Polarization-dependent intersubband absorption saturation and its effect on polarization selection in vertical cavity surface-emitting lasers

B S Ryvkin, E A Avrutin, M Pessa

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Abstract

A mechanism of nonlinear dichroism of net gain in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers based on polarization-dependent saturation of intersubband absorption in p-contact layers is proposed and analyzed. Microscopic perturbative calculations are used to obtain approximate analytical expressions for the magnitude of the effect. It is shown that the proposed mechanism can play a significant part in polarization switching and bistability in vertical-cavity lasers. (C) 2003 American Institute of Physics.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2353-2358
Number of pages	6
Journal	Journal of Applied Physics
Volume	93
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1540745
Publication status	Published - 1 Mar 2003

Keywords

SEMICONDUCTOR-LASERS
BISTABILITY
DIODES
TEMPERATURE
MODULATION
RELAXATION
MODE
GAAS

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