A Method of Polarization Stabilization in Surface Emitting Lasers

In this paper, we propose a surface emitting laser structure for controlling its output polarization. By preparing high refractive index films on the side walls of a dielectric multilayer reflector, we can provide a differential loss to the orthogonal polarizations. We estimate the reflectivity dependence on the polarization direction of this reflector and conclude that the control of polarization direction is possible by employing this structure.