Spin-lasers: spintronics beyond magnetoresistance

I Žutić, G Xu, M Lindemann, PEF Junior, J Lee… - Solid State …, 2020 - Elsevier
Introducing spin-polarized carriers in semiconductor lasers reveals an alternative path to
realize room-temperature spintronic applications, beyond the usual magnetoresistive effects …

Ultrafast spin-lasers

M Lindemann, G Xu, T Pusch, R Michalzik… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Lasers have both ubiquitous applications and roles as model systems in which non-
equilibrium and cooperative phenomena can be elucidated. The introduction of novel …

Spin‐Controlled Vertical‐Cavity Surface‐Emitting Lasers

NC Gerhardt, MR Hofmann - Advances in Optical Technologies, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
We discuss the concept of spin‐controlled vertical‐cavity surface‐emitting lasers (VCSELs)
and analyze it with respect to potential room‐temperature applications in spin …

Ultrafast spin-induced polarization oscillations with tunable lifetime in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers

NC Gerhardt, MY Li, H Jähme, H Höpfner… - Applied Physics …, 2011 - pubs.aip.org
We report spin-induced polarization oscillations in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers
above threshold and at room temperature. The oscillation frequency is 11.6 GHz, which is …

Random polarization switching in gain-switched VCSELs for quantum random number generation

A Quirce, A Valle - Optics Express, 2022 - opg.optica.org
In this paper, we report an experimental and theoretical study of the random excitation of the
linearly polarized modes of a gain-switched VCSEL characterized by having polarization …

Frequency tuning of polarization oscillations: Toward high-speed spin-lasers

M Lindemann, T Pusch, R Michalzik… - Applied Physics …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Spin-controlled vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (spin-VCSELs) offer a high potential to
overcome several limitations of conventional purely charged-based laser devices …

Toward high-frequency operation of spin lasers

PE Faria Junior, G Xu, J Lee, NC Gerhardt, GM Sipahi… - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
Injecting spin-polarized carriers into semiconductor lasers provides important opportunities
to extend what is known about spintronic devices, as well as to overcome many limitations of …

Vertical‐cavity surface‐emitting lasers with birefringence splitting above 250 GHz

T Pusch, M Lindemann, NC Gerhardt… - Electronics …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Using the elasto‐optic effect, increase of the frequency difference between the two
orthogonally polarised modes, the so‐called birefringence splitting, in standard single‐mode …

VCSEL-based optical frequency combs expansion induced by polarized optical injection

A Quirce, C de Dios, A Valle… - IEEE Journal of Selected …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The present theoretical work studies optical frequency combs (OFCs) associated with both
linear polarizations of a gain switching vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) subject …

[HTML][HTML] Polarization-stable single-mode multi-junction VCSELs with integrated anti-phase mode filter

A Ghods, M Dummer, K Johnson - Journal of Applied Physics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
In this paper, polarization-stable and spectrally single-mode operation of oxide-confined
multi-junction vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) are achieved by using a non …