Polarization dynamics in VCSELs subject to optical injection

Author

Sciamanna, M. ; Panajotov, K. ; Monticelli, G. ; Tabaka, A. ; Thienpont, H. ; Veretennicoff, I. ; Mégret, P. ; Blondel, Mathieu ; Bandyopadhyay, S. ; Hong, Y. ; Shore, K.A.

Author_Institution

Service d´´EIectromagnetisme et de Telecommun., Fac. Polytech. de Mons, Belgium

fYear

2003

fDate

22-27 June 2003

Firstpage

37

Abstract

The dynamics of VCSEL subject to optical injection is investigated. This study is interesting in that it may define new techniques to control the light polarization. Optical injection may also induce new instabilities related to polarization competition. Different situations are explored, which differ by the polarization state of the solitary VCSEL and/or that of the injected field. In this work, the authors show numerical results obtained from an extension of the San Miguel, Feng and Moloney model to optical injection.

Keywords

laser cavity resonators; light polarisation; semiconductor lasers; surface emitting lasers; VCSEL; light polarization; optical injection; polarization competition; polarization dynamics; polarization state; Bifurcation; Frequency; Laser mode locking; Laser stability; Optical control; Optical polarization; Optical switches; Physics; Power lasers; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Quantum Electronics Conference, 2003. EQEC '03. European

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7733-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EQEC.2003.1313894

Filename

1313894