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Transverse patterns and length-scale selection in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers with a large square aperture

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The length-scale selection in complex emission patterns spontaneously arising in broad-area vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers is studied experimentally. The wavenumbers of individual tilted wave modes show a square-root-like dependence on the detuning between emission frequency and longitudinal cavity resonance, in accordance with theoretical expectations. The absolute values of the wavenumbers are in good qualitative agreement with calculations taking into account the reflection properties of the Bragg reflectors and dispersion.

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  1. Institut für Angewandte Physik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Corrensstrass e 2/4, 48149, Münster, Germany

    M. Schulz-Ruhtenberg, I.V. Babushkin & T. Ackemann

  2. Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Prospekt Nezavisimosti 68, 220072, Minsk, Belarus

    I.V. Babushkin & N.A. Loiko

  3. Department of Electrophysics, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

    K.F. Huang

  4. Department of Physics, University of Strathclyde, 107 Rottenrow, Glasgow, G4 0NG, Scotland, UK

    T. Ackemann

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Schulz-Ruhtenberg, M., Babushkin, I., Loiko, N. et al. Transverse patterns and length-scale selection in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers with a large square aperture. Appl. Phys. B 81, 945–953 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-005-2012-1

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