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  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
  • OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 1991),
  • paper CMB4

Polarization bistability in semiconductor lasers with intracavity multiple quantum-well saturable absorbers

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Abstract

We predict a new type of room-temperature optical polarization bistability in semiconductor lasers based on the anisotropy in the absorption cross section of quantum-well structures. The basic structure of the proposed polarization bistable semiconductor (PBS) laser is shown in Fig. 1. It consists of a conventional double heterostructure (DH) gain section coupled to a multiple-quantum-well (MQW) section that acts as a polarization-sensitive saturable absorber.

© 1991 Optical Society of America

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