Digital operation and eye diagrams in spin-lasers

作者:Wasner Evan; Bearden Sean; Lee Jeongsu; Zutic Igor*
来源:Applied Physics Letters, 2015, 107(8): 082406.
DOI:10.1063/1.4929612

摘要

Digital operation of lasers with injected spin-polarized carriers provides an improved operation over their conventional counterparts with spin-unpolarized carriers. Such spin-lasers can attain much higher bit rates, crucial for optical communication systems. The overall quality of a digital signal in these two types of lasers is compared using eye diagrams and quantified by improved Q-factors and bit-error-rates in spin-lasers. Surprisingly, an optimal performance of spin-lasers requires finite, not infinite, spin-relaxation times, giving a guidance for the design of future spinlasers.

  • 出版日期2015-8-24