Recent progresses in research on bistable laser diodes and their applications in optical
communications and photonic switching are reviewed. In addition to the conventional …

Figures of merit connecting processing capabilities with power dissipated (OpS/Watt,
Joule/bit, etc.) are becoming dominant factors in choosing technologies for implementing the …

A four-level model which takes account of the polarization of the laser field by including the
spin sublevels of the conduction and valence bands of a semiconductor allows us to …

Polarization-state selection, polarization-state dynamics, and polarization switching of a
quantum-well vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) for the lowest order transverse …

We show that the partitioning of power into the two orthogonal eigen polarizations of infra-
red gain-guided vertical cavity lasers depends upon the relative spectral overlap of the …

We demonstrate a new mechanism for polarization switching in slightly anisotropic vertical-
cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSEL's) based on index guiding due to the effect of thermal …

We have analyzed the effect of the photon energy and temperature dependence of both the
gain and the total losses inside the cavity to understand the polarization behavior of vertical …

We experimentally demonstrate that the presence of switching between two fundamental
modes with orthogonal linear polarization in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers and the …

We consider the polarization dynamics of optically pumped vertical-cavity surface-emitting
lasers (VCSELs) with a pump light of arbitrary polarization ellipticity. We also consider the …

In this paper we report on the evidence of polarized and spatially localized emission of a
Tamm laser. The polarized emission results from an anisotropic three-dimensional …