Deterministic polarization chaos in a laser diode

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  • Sciamanna Marc
    Department of Applied Physics and Photonics (IR-TONA), Vrije Universiteit Brussels
  • Virte Martin
    Supélec, OPTEL Research Group, Laboratoire Matériaux Optiques, Photonique et Systèmes (LMOPS) EA-4423 / Department of Applied Physics and Photonics (IR-TONA), Vrije Universiteit Brussels
  • Thienpont Hugo
    Department of Applied Physics and Photonics (IR-TONA), Vrije Universiteit Brussels
  • Panajotov Krassimir
    Department of Applied Physics and Photonics (IR-TONA), Vrije Universiteit Brussels

Description

Experiments on quantum well and recently quantum dot VCSELs have shown that the increase of injection current may lead to a transition from a linearly polarized light emission at threshold to a region of nonlinear dynamics (self-pulsing) accompanying polarization switching. However these experiments brought different conclusions on the frequency of self-pulsation: the polarization dynamics occurred on a nanosecond time-scale that related either to the birefringence induced frequency splitting or to the relaxation oscillation frequency. With the use of advanced continuation methods applied to the well-known spin-flip (SFM) model, we bring now new light into the bifurcations explaining deterministic self-pulsing and deterministic polarization chaos. We are then able not only to reconcile these a priori contradicting experiments and to interpret experimental results as resulting from polarization chaos.

Journal

  • IEICE Proceeding Series

    IEICE Proceeding Series 1 195-198, 2014-03-17

    The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers

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  • CRID
    1390283687150979840
  • DOI
    10.15248/proc.1.195
  • ISSN
    21885079
  • Text Lang
    en
  • Data Source
    • JaLC
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