WANG Wei, NING Yong-qiang, ZHANG Jin-long, QIN Li, WANG Li-jun. Polarization Characteristics of Vertical-cavity Top-emitting Lasers with Rectangular Structure[J]. Chinese Journal of Luminescence, 2012,(5): 529-534
WANG Wei, NING Yong-qiang, ZHANG Jin-long, QIN Li, WANG Li-jun. Polarization Characteristics of Vertical-cavity Top-emitting Lasers with Rectangular Structure[J]. Chinese Journal of Luminescence, 2012,(5): 529-534 DOI: 10.3788/fgxb20123305.0529.
Polarization Characteristics of Vertical-cavity Top-emitting Lasers with Rectangular Structure
Polarization characteristics of 980 nm large-aperture top-emitting vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSEL) with rectangular post were investigated for achieving high-power polarized laser. The experimental results showed that
for the rectangular-shaped VCSEL with 400 m80 m output aperture
both H-polarization (horizontal) and V-polarization (vertical) coexisted in the entire range of operation current
and H-polarization always dominated over V-polarization. Blue-shift of H-polarization light occurred with respect to V-polarization. The experimental results for power and spectrum polarization are consistent with the theoretical calculation. It was proved that the polarization direction of large-aperture VCSEL can be preferably stabilized by the rectangular structure. The horizontal and vertical beam divergences were 6.9 and 10.2 in the rectangular-shaped VCSEL
respectively.
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