Abstract

We present experimental investigations on spatially resolved Stokes parameters of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) with a small aperture diameter of 3 μm and a monolithically integrated surface grating on top of the structure to technologically control the polarization. As expected, the grating fixes the state of polarization, but still shows both a spatially nonuniform linear polarization distribution of the fundamental transverse mode as well as an interesting eight-lobe pattern of circular polarization in terms of change of sign. These experimental findings are reproduced by numerical simulations using a fully vectorial three-dimensional model.

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