Polarization switching and polarization mode hopping in quantum dot vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 2476-2484

  Olejniczak, Lukasz ^a   Panajotov, Krassimir ^a   Thienpont, Hugo ^a   Sciamanna, Marc ^b   Mutig, Alex ^c   Hopfer, Friedhelm ^c   Bimberg, Dieter ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b SUPELEC   (France)

^c TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASERS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; POLARIZATION; QUANTUM DOT LASERS; QUANTUM WELL LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

AVERAGE DWELL TIME; INJECTION CURRENTS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; POLARIZATION MODES; POLARIZATION SWITCHING; POLARIZED MODES; QUANTUM DOT; QUANTUM WELL; VERTICAL CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASER;

SURFACE EMITTING LASERS;

QUANTUM DOT;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; REFRACTOMETRY;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; QUANTUM DOTS; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 79851507377     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.002476     Document Type: Article

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