Polarization- and transverse-mode dynamics in optically injected and gain-switched vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1473-1481

  Panajotov, Krassimir ^a,b   Gatare, Ignace ^a   Valle, Angel ^c   Thienpont, Hugo ^a   Sciamanna, Marc ^d  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUTE OF SOLID STATE PHYSICS   (Bulgaria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

^d SUPELEC   (France)

Author keywords

Bifurcation; Chaos; Current modulation; Gain switching; Optical injection; Polarization switching; Vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL)

Indexed keywords

CURRENT MODULATION; CYLINDRICAL SYMMETRY; DETUNINGS; EXTERNAL PERTURBATIONS; FIRST-ORDER; GAIN SWITCHING; GAIN-SWITCHED; INJECTION-LOCKING; MODE COMPETITION; NON-LINEAR DYNAMICS; NONLINEAR POLARIZATIONS; OPTICAL INJECTION; POLARIZATION ANISOTROPY; POLARIZATION SWITCHING; SURFACE EMISSIONS; TRANSVERSE MODE; VERTICAL-CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASER;

DYNAMICS; HOPF BIFURCATION; LASERS; MICROOPTICS; MODULATION; OPTICAL SWITCHES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; POLARIZATION; SWITCHING;

SURFACE EMITTING LASERS;

EID: 72949083073     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2009.2024958     Document Type: Conference Paper

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