title: Conducting single-transverse-mode operation with a wide tuning range in commercial multimode VCSELs by beam-profile-adapted optical feedback.
abstract: This research investigated the feasibility of employing beam-profile-adapted optical feedback to conduct commercial multi-transverse-mode vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) to emit a single transverse mode with a wide tuning range. Experimentally, for a VCSEL with its solitary spectrum consisting of almost no fundamental transverse mode, the fundamental transverse mode could be conducted to lase with a tuning range of about 1285 GHz and side-mode suppression ratio of around 20 dB. These results can greatly enhance the performance of VCSELs in many applications.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan 804, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Chuan-Pi
authors.initials: CP
authors.lastname: Hsu
authors.forename: Da-Long
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Cheng
authors.forename: Wang-Chuang
authors.initials: WC
authors.lastname: Kuo
authors.forename: Tsu-Chiang
authors.initials: TC
authors.lastname: Yen