Inventors:
Arthur J. Fischer - Albuquerque NM
Kent D. Choquette - Urbana IL
Weng W. Chow - Cedar Crest NM
Assignee:
Sandia Corporation - Albuquerque NM
International Classification:
H01S 330
Abstract:
A new class of bistable coupled-resonator vertical-cavity semiconductor laser devices has been developed. These bistable laser devices can be switched, either electrically or optically, between lasing and non-lasing states. A switching signal with a power of a fraction of a milliwatt can change the laser output of such a device by a factor of a hundred, thereby enabling a range of optical switching and data encoding applications.