Abstract
We investigate experimentally the polarization dynamics of a vertical external-cavity surface-emitting laser with a saturable absorber mirror in the cavity. We demonstrate that the normalized Stokes parameters and degree of polarization are functions of time reaching extreme values around the pulse peaks. Our experiments show that light is elliptically polarized, being able to have a circular right-handed or left-handed component, depending on the orientation of the saturable absorber mirror.
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