Spontaneous formation of vector vortex beams in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers with feedback

Jimenez Garcia, Jesus and Rodriguez, Pedro and Guillet, T. and Ackemann, T. (2017) Spontaneous formation of vector vortex beams in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers with feedback. Physical Review Letters, 119 (11). 113902. ISSN 1079-7114 (https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.113902)

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Abstract

The spontaneous emergence of vector vortex beams with nonuniform polarization distribution is reported in a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) with frequency-selective feedback. Antivortices with a hyperbolic polarization structure and radially polarized vortices are demonstrated. They exist close to and partially coexist with vortices with uniform and nonuniform polarization distributions characterized by four domains of pairwise orthogonal polarization. The spontaneous formation of these nontrivial structures in a simple, nearly isotropic VCSEL system is remarkable and the vector vortices are argued to have solitonlike properties.

ORCID iDs

Jimenez Garcia, Jesus ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3632-4990, Rodriguez, Pedro, Guillet, T. and Ackemann, T. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2727-7395;
  • Item type:Article
    ID code:62096
    Dates:
    Date
    Event
    15 September 2017
    Published
    10 July 2017
    Accepted
    17 June 2017
    Submitted
    Subjects:Science > Physics
    Department:Faculty of Science > Physics
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:20 Oct 2017 14:02
    Last modified:11 Nov 2024 11:43
    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/62096
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