• Chinese Optics Letters
  • Vol. 19, Issue 8, 081401 (2021)
Xiang Ma, Shuang Zheng, Jia Liu, Quanan Chen, Qiaoyin Lu, and Weihua Guo*
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  • Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics & School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
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    DOI: 10.3788/COL202119.081401 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Xiang Ma, Shuang Zheng, Jia Liu, Quanan Chen, Qiaoyin Lu, Weihua Guo. Design of a single-mode directly modulated orbital angular momentum laser[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2021, 19(8): 081401 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    We propose a design of single-mode orbital angular momentum (OAM) beam laser with high direct-modulation bandwidth. It is a microcylinder/microring cavity interacted with two types of second-order gratings: the complex top grating containing the real part and the imaginary part modulations and the side grating. The side grating etched on the periphery of the microcylinder/microring cavity can select a whispering gallery mode with a specific azimuthal mode number, while the complex top grating can scatter the lasing mode with travelling-wave pattern vertically. With the cooperation of the gratings, the laser works with a single mode and emits radially polarized OAM beams. With an asymmetrical pad metal on the top of the cavity, the OAM on-chip laser can firstly be directly modulated with electrical pumping. Due to the small active volume, the laser with low threshold current is predicted to have a high direct modulation bandwidth about 29 GHz with the bias current of ten times the threshold from the simulation. The semiconductor OAM laser can be rather easily realized at different wavelengths such as the O band, C band, and L band.
    Δn=Ccosφ+Cisinφ,2πp/Mφ(p+1/4)2π/M,p=0,1,2,3,

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    Δn=C0+Cφexp(iφ)+Cφexp(iφ).

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    Eemission=B(cosφsinφ)exp[i(Mm)φ],

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    Xiang Ma, Shuang Zheng, Jia Liu, Quanan Chen, Qiaoyin Lu, Weihua Guo. Design of a single-mode directly modulated orbital angular momentum laser[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2021, 19(8): 081401
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