Switching of lasing circular polarizations in a (110)-VCSEL

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 21, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 1350-1352

  Ikeda, Kazuhiro ^a   Fujimoto, Toshiyasu ^a   Fujino, Hiroshi ^a   Katayama, Takeo ^a  

^a NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

(110) oriented quantum wells (QWs); Quantumwell (QW) lasers; Spin lasers; Spin vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs)

Indexed keywords

(110)-ORIENTED QUANTUM WELLS (QWS); DEGREE OF CIRCULAR POLARIZATION; GAAS; MEASURED RESULTS; OPTICAL PUMPS; ORTHOGONAL CIRCULAR POLARIZATIONS; QUANTUMWELL (QW) LASERS; RATE-EQUATION ANALYSIS; SPIN INJECTION; SPIN LASERS; SPIN RELAXATION TIME; SPIN VERTICAL-CAVITY SURFACE-EMITTING LASERS (VCSELS); VERTICAL-CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASER;

CARRIER LIFETIME; CIRCULAR POLARIZATION; LASERS; MICROOPTICS; OPTICAL PUMPING; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; POLARIZATION; QUANTUM WELL LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SPIN DYNAMICS;

SURFACE EMITTING LASERS;

EID: 70349429821     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2009.2026631     Document Type: Article

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