Polarization switching dynamics and bistability in mutually coupled vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6184, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Vicente, Raúl ^a   Mulet, Josep ^a   Mirasso, Claudio R ^a   Sciamanna, Marc ^b  

^a INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^b SUPELEC   (France)

Author keywords

Optical bistability; Polarization; VCSEL

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; OPTICAL BISTABILITY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POLARIZATION; SWITCHING;

BISTABLE POLARIZATION; POLARIZATION SWITCHINGS; SWITCHING DYNAMICS; VERTICAL-CAVITY SURFACE-EMITTING LASERS;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 33746672643     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.663622     Document Type: Conference Paper

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