Abstract

Semiconductor devices capable of generating a vortex beam with a specific orbital angular momentum (OAM) order are highly attractive for applications ranging from nanoparticle manipulation, imaging and microscopy to fiber and quantum communications. In this work, an electrically pumped integrated OAM emitter operating at telecom wavelengths is fabricated by monolithically integrating an optical vortex emitter with a distributed feedback laser on the same InGaAsP/InP epitaxial wafer. A single-step dry-etching process is adopted to complete the OAM emitter, equipped with specially designed top gratings. The vortex beam emitted by the integrated device is captured and its OAM mode purity characterized. The integrated OAM emitter eliminates the external laser required by silicon- or silicon-on-insulator-based OAM emitters, thus demonstrating great potential for applications in communication systems and the quantum domain.

Details

Title
An InP-based vortex beam emitter with monolithically integrated laser
Author
Zhang, Juan 1 ; Sun, Changzheng 1 ; Xiong, Bing 1 ; Wang, Jian 1 ; Hao, Zhibiao 1 ; Wang, Lai 1 ; Han, Yanjun 1 ; Li, Hongtao 1 ; Luo, Yi 1 ; Xiao, Yi 2 ; Yu, Chuanqing 2 ; Tanemura, Takuo 2 ; Nakano, Yoshiaki 2 ; Li, Shimao 3 ; Cai, Xinlun 3 ; Yu, Siyuan 3 

 Beijing National Research Centre for Information Science and Technology (BNRist), Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China 
 Integrated Photonics Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, Graduate School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan 
 State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, School of Electronics and Information Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China 
Pages
1-6
Publication year
2018
Publication date
Jul 2018
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group
e-ISSN
20411723
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2067108600
Copyright
© 2018. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.