%0 Journal Article
%T Spontaneous Formation of Vector Vortex Beams in Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers with Feedback
%+ Experimental Quantum Optics and Photonics Group, University of Strathclyde
%+ Physics Department, University of Cordoba
%+ Laboratoire Charles Coulomb (L2C)
%A Jimenez-Garcia, Jesus
%A Rodriguez, Pedro
%A Guillet, Thierry
%A Ackemann, T.
%< avec comité de lecture
%Z L2C:17-143
%@ 0031-9007
%J Physical Review Letters
%I American Physical Society
%V 119
%N 11
%P 113902
%8 2017-09-15
%D 2017
%R 10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.113902
%Z Physics [physics]/Condensed Matter [cond-mat]/Other [cond-mat.other]Journal articles
%X The spontaneous emergence of vector vortex beams with non-uniform polarization distribution is reported in a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser with frequency-selective feedback. Anti-vortices with a hyperbolic polarization structure and radially polarized vortices are demonstrated. They exist close to and partially coexist with vortices with uniform and non-uniform polarization distributions characterized by four domains of pairwise orthogonal polarization. These vector vortices are argued to have soliton-like properties. Independently of this interpretation, the novel way of generating these nontrivial structures in a remarkably simple VCSEL system is regarded to be interesting and potentially beneficial for other experiments utilizing non-uniform polarization structures.
%G English
%2 https://hal.science/hal-01631138/document
%2 https://hal.science/hal-01631138/file/Jimenez_Garcia_etal_PRL_2017_Spontaneous_formation_of_vector_vortex_beams_in_vertical_cavity_surface_emitting_lasers.pdf
%L hal-01631138
%U https://hal.science/hal-01631138
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