Numerical study of optical injection dynamics of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers

Author

Torre, M.S. ; Masoller, Cristina ; Shore, K.A.

Author_Institution

Inst. de Fisica "Arroyo Seco", Tandil, Argentina

Volume

40

Issue

1

fYear

2004

Firstpage

25

Lastpage

30

Abstract

We study numerically the transverse-mode dynamics of a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser with external optical injection. We consider the case in which two transverse modes with parallel polarizations are exited. Varying the strength and frequency of the injected field, we find a rich variety of complex behaviors. We show that by increasing the optical injection strength the laser does not turn into a single-mode laser, as would be expected if the transverse modes have perpendicular polarizations.

Keywords

laser mode locking; laser stability; optical chaos; quantum well lasers; surface emitting lasers; antiphase dynamics; chaotic oscillations; complex behaviors; cylindrically symmetric structure; external optical injection; injection locking; parallel polarizations; single effective quantum well; transverse-mode dynamics; vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser; High speed optical techniques; Laser mode locking; Laser stability; Master-slave; Nonlinear optics; Optical bistability; Optical modulation; Optical polarization; Surface emitting lasers; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9197

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JQE.2003.821484

Filename

1262084