TY - JOUR
T1 - Polarization control of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers by utilizing surface plasmon resonance
AU - Onishi, Toshikazu
AU - Tanigawa, Tatsuya
AU - Ueda, Tetsuzo
AU - Ueda, Daisuke
PY - 2007/12/1
Y1 - 2007/12/1
N2 - We demonstrate polarization control of vertical- cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) to any desired directions by utilizing surface plasmon resonance at a metal nanohole array. A silver nanohole array is integrated on the p-type distributed Bragg reflector of an 850-nm AlGaAs-GaAs-based VCSEL. The metal nanohole array placed at rectangular lattices with orthogonally different two periods, one of which meets the resonant condition, exhibits strong polarization preference in optical transmission. Integrated four VCSELs with different directions of the rectangular arrays of nanoholes demonstrate successful control of the polarization angles. The VCSELs are closely located onto a one chip so that the optical outputs are easily coupled to one optical fiber. The presented VCSEL array will open a new horizon of multi-input multi-output communication systems by using polarization multiplexing.
AB - We demonstrate polarization control of vertical- cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) to any desired directions by utilizing surface plasmon resonance at a metal nanohole array. A silver nanohole array is integrated on the p-type distributed Bragg reflector of an 850-nm AlGaAs-GaAs-based VCSEL. The metal nanohole array placed at rectangular lattices with orthogonally different two periods, one of which meets the resonant condition, exhibits strong polarization preference in optical transmission. Integrated four VCSELs with different directions of the rectangular arrays of nanoholes demonstrate successful control of the polarization angles. The VCSELs are closely located onto a one chip so that the optical outputs are easily coupled to one optical fiber. The presented VCSEL array will open a new horizon of multi-input multi-output communication systems by using polarization multiplexing.
KW - Metal nanohole array
KW - Polarization control
KW - Surface plasmon resonance
KW - Vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL)
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=36348945772&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/JQE.2007.905897
DO - 10.1109/JQE.2007.905897
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:36348945772
VL - 43
SP - 1123
EP - 1128
JO - IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics
JF - IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics
SN - 0018-9197
IS - 12
ER -