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Spontaneous Formation of Vector Vortex Beams in Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers with Feedback

Jesus Jimenez-Garcia, Pedro Rodriguez, T. Guillet, and T. Ackemann
Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 113902 – Published 15 September 2017
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Abstract

The spontaneous emergence of vector vortex beams with nonuniform polarization distribution is reported in a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) with frequency-selective feedback. Antivortices with a hyperbolic polarization structure and radially polarized vortices are demonstrated. They exist close to and partially coexist with vortices with uniform and nonuniform polarization distributions characterized by four domains of pairwise orthogonal polarization. The spontaneous formation of these nontrivial structures in a simple, nearly isotropic VCSEL system is remarkable and the vector vortices are argued to have solitonlike properties.

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  • Received 19 April 2016

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.113902

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Nonlinear DynamicsAtomic, Molecular & Optical

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Published 15 September 2017

A simple laser setup has spontaneously produced nonuniform polarization patterns called vector vortices.

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Jesus Jimenez-Garcia1, Pedro Rodriguez2, T. Guillet3,1, and T. Ackemann1,*

  • 1SUPA and Department of Physics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G4 0NG, Scotland, United Kingdom
  • 2Departamento de Fisica, Universidad de Cordoba, 14071 Cordoba, Spain
  • 3Laboratoire Charles Coulomb (L2C), Université de Montpellier, CNRS, 34095 Montpellier, France

  • *Corresponding author. thorsten.ackemann@strath.ac.uk

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Vol. 119, Iss. 11 — 15 September 2017

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