Vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers for compact atomic sensors

Physical optics
Authors:
Blokhin Sergei A. Kovach Yakov N. Bobrov Mikhail A. Blokhin Aleksey A. Maleev Nicolai A. Kuzmenkov Aleksandr G. Zadiranov Yuri M. Kulagina Marina M. Guseva Yulia A. Vasil’ev Alexey P. Ustinov Victor M.
Abstract:

The design features of 8XX nm-range vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers for providing single-mode and polarization-stable lasing, narrowing the spectral linewidth of laser emission and achieving high modulation bandwidth are considered The special intra-cavity contacted design and the rhomb-shaped oxide-confined aperture can simultaneously provide single-mode output optical power above 1 mW, fixed polarization direction, emission linewidth below 50 MHz and modulation bandwidth more than 5 GHz.