Polarization dynamics induced by parallel optical injection in a single-mode VCSEL

Florian Denis-Le Coarer (1, 2) , Ana Quirce , Ángel Valle (3) , Luis Pesquera (4) , Marc Sciamanna (2, 1) , Hugo Thienpont (5) , Krassimir Panajotov (5)

1 LMOPS - Laboratoire Matériaux Optiques, Photonique et Systèmes
2 Chaire Photonique
3 IFCA - Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria
4 IFCA - Instituto de Física de Cantabria
5 TONA - Department of Applied Physics and Photonics [Brussels]

We report an experimental study of the polarization nonlinear dynamics in a 1550 nm single-mode vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) subject to parallel optical injection. Experimentally measured stability maps identifying regions of different nonlinear dynamics for various values of bias current are reported. We show that VCSELs with more than a 35 dB polarization mode suppression ratio can have rich nonlinear dynamics in both linear polarizations, including periodic and chaotic behaviors appearing simultaneously in both polarization modes.

Mots clés: Diode Lasers; Injection locking; Polarization; Semiconductor lasers; Spontaneous emission; VCSELs

Domaines: Physique [physics]; Sciences de l'ingénieur [physics]; Science non linéaire [physics]

Florian Denis-Le Coarer, Ana Quirce, Ángel Valle, Luis Pesquera, Marc Sciamanna, et al.. Polarization dynamics induced by parallel optical injection in a single-mode VCSEL. Optics Letters, 2017, 42 (11), pp.2130-2133. ⟨10.1364/OL.42.002130⟩. ⟨hal-01810104⟩