Nonlinear dynamics of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers
Fecha
2011Versión
Acceso abierto / Sarbide irekia
Tipo
Artículo / Artikulua
Versión
Versión publicada / Argitaratu den bertsioa
Impacto
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10.1155/2011/469627
Resumen
Nonlinear dynamics of Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers (VCSELs) induced by optical injection, optical feedback, current
modulation and mutual coupling is reviewed. Due to the surface emission and cylindrical symmetry VCSELs lack strong
polarization anisotropy and may undergo polarization switching. Furthermore, VCSELs may emit light in multiple transverse
modes. These VCSEL properties prov ...
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Nonlinear dynamics of Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers (VCSELs) induced by optical injection, optical feedback, current
modulation and mutual coupling is reviewed. Due to the surface emission and cylindrical symmetry VCSELs lack strong
polarization anisotropy and may undergo polarization switching. Furthermore, VCSELs may emit light in multiple transverse
modes. These VCSEL properties provide new features to the rich nonlinear dynamics induced by an external perturbation.
We demonstrate for the case of orthogonal optical injection that new Hopf bifurcation on a two-polarization-mode solution
delimits the injection locking region and that polarization switching and injection locking of first-order transverse mode lead to
a new resonance tongue for large positive detunings. Similarly, the underlying polarization mode competition leads to chaoticlike
behavior in case of gain switching and the presence of two transverse modes additionally reduces the possibility of regular
dynamics. The bistable property of VCSEL makes it possible to investigate very fundamental problems of bistable systems
with time-delay, such as the coherence resonance phenomenon. We also demonstrate that the synchronization quality between
unidirectionally coupled VCSELs can be significantly enhanced when the feedback-induced chaos in the master laser involves both
orthogonal LP fundamental transverse modes. [--]
Materias
Nonlinear dynamics,
Vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers
Editor
Hindawi / Wiley
Publicado en
Advances in Optical Technologies, Volume 2011, Article ID 469627
Departamento
Universidad Pública de Navarra. Departamento de Ingeniería Eléctrica y Electrónica /
Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa. Ingeniaritza Elektrikoa eta Elektronikoa Saila
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Entidades Financiadoras
The authors also acknowledge the support
of COST MP0702 European Action, Conseil Régional de
Lorraine, Fondation Sup´elec, IAP 6/10—Belgian Science
Policy, FWOFlanders, GOA, andOZR of the VUB.