title: Observation of the wave function of a quantum billiard from the transverse patterns of vertical cavity surface emitting lasers.
abstract: We demonstrate experimentally that the near-field and far-field transverse patterns of a large aperture vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) can be successfully interpreted as a two-dimensional (2D) billiard system. It is found that the near-field and far-field transverse patterns of a large aperture VCSEL evidently represent the coordinate-space and momentum-space wave functions of a 2D quantum billiard, respectively. The result of this paper suggests that large aperture VCSELs are potentially appropriate physical systems for the wave-function study in quantum problems.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrophysics, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Republic of China.
authors.forename: K F
authors.initials: KF
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Y F
authors.initials: YF
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: H C
authors.initials: HC
authors.lastname: Lai
authors.forename: Y P
authors.initials: YP
authors.lastname: Lan