The invention discloses a mode-locked
laser based on cross-polarization feedback injection and a control method thereof, and belongs to the technical field of lasers, a
light beam emitted by a VCSEL
laser is divided into two beams through an optical splitter, the first beam is divided into a first TM mode
light beam and a first TE mode
light beam through a first polarization-maintaining
beam splitter, the two beams form an annular loop on a light path, and the first TM mode light beam and the first TE mode light beam form an annular loop on the light path; and a half-wave plate is arranged on the loop. And the two beams of light are respectively and oppositely propagated along the annular loop, return to the VCSEL
laser after being subjected to polarization state conversion by the half-wave plate, are reflected by a
resonant cavity of the VCSEL laser again, are coupled into the
resonant cavity after being subjected to secondary polarization state conversion by the half-wave plate, and finally finish the output of the mode-locked laser. The laser reaches a mode-locked state by adjusting the angle of the half-wave plate. The laser uses an orthogonal polarization feedback injection mechanism, does not need to use a saturable absorber and a polarization
inverter, is simple in structure and easy to implement, greatly reduces the cost and complexity of a
system, and meets the requirements of different application scenes.