Ultrafast electrical polarization modulation in VCSEL with asymmetric current injection
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Barve, Ajit V.; Mehta, Alok; Husain, Anis; Coldren, Larry
- Source
- 2014 Optical Interconnects Conference Optical Interconnects Conference, 2014 IEEE. :91-92 May, 2014
- Subject
- Photonics and Electrooptics
Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers
Modulation
Optical switches
Current measurement
Power measurement
Photonics
- Language
- ISSN
- 2376-8665
We report on the use of asymmetric current injection to electrically switch between the orthogonal linear polarization modes of VCSELs using a four terminal architecture. A record high electrical polarization modulation speed of 4Gb/s has been obtained.