Bistabilities of birefringent vertical-cavity semiconductor optical amplifiers with antiresonant reflecting optical waveguide

Wei Li Zhang; Siu Fung Yu

doi:10.1109/JQE.2009.2022651

Bistabilities of birefringent vertical-cavity semiconductor optical amplifiers with antiresonant reflecting optical waveguide

Wei Li Zhang, Siu Fung Yu

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Abstract

Bistable characteristics of birefringent antiresonant reflecting-optical- waveguide (ARROW) vertical-cavity semiconductor optical amplifiers (VCSOA) under external optical injection with multi-mode profile and arbitrary polarization orientation are investigated theoretically. It is found that the presence of ARROW can realize stable single-mode bistable switching in VCSOAs. Furthermore, with suitable design of the bias current profile, it can be shown that ARROW VCSOAs with a large core diameter (i.e., ≥ 50 μ) can sustain stable single-mode bistable switching.

Original language	English
Article number	5346605
Pages (from-to)	11-18
Number of pages	8
Journal	IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics
Volume	46
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/JQE.2009.2022651
Publication status	Published - 4 Jan 2010
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Antiresonant reflecting optical waveguide
Birefringence
Optical bistability
Optical switching
Vertical-cavity semiconductor optical amplifier (VCSOA)

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Condensed Matter Physics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Bistabilities of birefringent vertical-cavity semiconductor optical amplifiers with antiresonant reflecting optical waveguide

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