Progress on the analysis of polarised optical injection in 1550nm-VCSELs

Author

Hurtado, Antonio ; Schires, Kevin ; Al-Seyab, Rihab ; Khan, Nadir ; Henning, Ian D. ; Adams, Michael J.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Essex, Colchester, UK

fYear

2012

fDate

2-5 July 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

We review our recent work analysing the polarisation effects in optically injected VCSELs operating at the important telecom wavelength of 1550 nm. We summarise our studies on the polarisation, time and temperature dependence of the nonlinear dynamics induced in these devices when subject to different types of polarised optical injection. In addition, we also discuss the potentials of VCSELs for the optical emulation of different neuronal behaviours offering prospects for novel uses of these devices in future neuromorphic systems and novel computing paradigms.

Keywords

light polarisation; surface emitting lasers; nonlinear dynamics; optical emulation; optically injected VCSEL; polarised optical injection; temperature dependence; time dependence; wavelength 1550 nm; Integrated optics; Nonlinear dynamical systems; Nonlinear optical devices; Optical polarization; Optical variables measurement; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers; Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers (VCSELs); nonlinear dynamics; optical injection; optical neuron; polarisation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2012 14th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Coventry

ISSN

2161-2056

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2228-7

Electronic_ISBN

2161-2056

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2012.6254395

Filename

6254395