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This thesis addresses general aspects of the operation of a coupled-cavity vertical surface-emitting laser (CC-VCSEL) which consists of two active cavities optically coupled and independently electrically pumped. The first two chapters of the thesis deal w ...
In the ever-growing world of optical telecommunications. Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers (SOAs) are called to play an increasingly important role. Their attractive performances both in the linear and non-linear regime along with their reduced cost and sma ...
We demonstrate a new type of laser composed of an array of coupled photonic crystal nanocavities that enables high differential quantum efficiency and output power, together with a low threshold power comparable to those of single photonic crystal cavity l ...
We develop a pseudospectral multi-domain formulation for the accurate modeling of generic diffractive optical elements, here exemplified by off-plane waveguide holograms for the coupling between guided waves and freely propagating wavefronts. The individua ...
Applied Computational Electromagnetics Soc, Monterey, CA, United States1998
We present photonic crystal structures that exhibit small group velocity of light, which can be used as compact optical delay component. We experimentally measure the group velocity reduction to be less than 0.008c. By breaking the rotation symmetry of the ...
We designed a new laser composed of two-dimensional coupled photonic crystal microcavity arrays. In these structures we have observed single mode lasing with power conversion efficiency 10 times better than a single microcavity laser. ...
The optical speed-up at transparency principle has been successfully applied to a gain-clamped semiconductor optical amplifier yielding a remarkable acceleration in the gain recovery of the device as well as to the disappearance of the typical relaxation o ...
We present a monolithically integrated coupled cavity vertical cavity surface emitting laser or BiVCSEL: this two-terminal electrically injected device exhibits stable laser emission at two design wavelengths simultaneously. The coupling between the two mo ...
Pump and probe measurements with femtosecond resolution are performed on a gain-clamped semiconductor optical amplifier, a structure that contains a lasing mode. The corresponding relaxation oscillations are observed in the temporal gain recovery of the am ...
The field of photonic crystals is a rapidly developing branch of modern optics. Photonic crystals are believed to be the cornerstone for a wide range of new photonic devices controlling the confinement and propagation of light. These artificial structures ...