Stable circularly polarized emission from a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser with a chiral reflector

Yiming Zhu; Fan Zhang; Guanjun You; Jie Liu; John D. Zhang; Akhlesh Lakhtakia; Jian Xu

doi:10.1143/APEX.5.032102

Stable circularly polarized emission from a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser with a chiral reflector

Yiming Zhu, Fan Zhang, Guanjun You, Jie Liu, John D. Zhang, Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Jian Xu

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An optically pumped vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) was conceived, fabricated, and characterized for stable circularly polarized (CP) emission. This laser includes a columnar thin film as a quarter-wave plate and a chiral sculptured thin film as a chiral mirror for its microcavity. Pure CP lasing with a high degree of CP (∼0:97) was observed when the VCSEL was optically pumped. The polarization of the laser output exhibits the same handedness as that of the chiral mirror.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	032102
Journal	Applied Physics Express
Volume	5
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1143/APEX.5.032102
State	Published - Mar 2012

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