Abstract

Periodic arrangements of VCSEL micro-cavities separated by distances comparable to the 1/e² transverse length of the cavity mode intensity interact though their fringe fields. Such interactions include cross-polarization, cross-gain and cross hole burning [?] among nearest neighbor cavities. Since each VCSEL possesses a cavity oscillation frequency the cavity array constitutes a coupled oscillator lattice admitting collective oscillation modes. Analytic derivation of the cross-coupling terms and subsequent integration of the resulting coupled rate equations describing the dynamics of l-D or 2-D periodic arrays of identical cavities demonstrate that

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