Abstract

Influences of polarization-selected mutual injection on polarization switching behaviors of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) are investigated numerically. For the polarization-preserved (PP) injection, the x mode is selected and is injected mutually into the two lasers. The two lasers show nearly identical polarization-switching (PS) behaviors, even if frequency detuning is nonzero. For the polarization-rotated (PR) injection, the x mode is selected and rotated 90° before being injected into the two lasers. When frequency detuning is considered, the two lasers show totally different PS properties, and mutual injection will switch to unidirectional injection with varying parameters. In both the cases of PP and PR injection, the partitions that correspond to different emission states and the switching points of the two VCSELs are mapped in the parameter space of injection rate and bias current. Furthermore, for each different emission state, the output dynamics and synchronization performance are evaluated in the time domain.

© 2007 Optical Society of America

Polarization switching of mutually coupled vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers

Wei Li Zhang, Wei Pan, Bin Luo, Xiao Feng Li, Xi Hua Zou, and Meng Yao Wang
J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 24(6) 1276-1282 (2007)

Polarization-resolved dynamics of asymmetrically coupled vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers

Wei Li Zhang, Wei Pan, Bin Luo, Xiao Feng Li, Xi Hua Zou, and Meng Yao Wang
J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 25(2) 153-158 (2008)

Impact of orthogonal optical feedback on the polarization switching of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers

Jon Paul, Cristina Masoller, Yanhua Hong, Paul S. Spencer, and K. Alan Shore
J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 24(8) 1987-1994 (2007)

Chaos synchronization in mutually coupled 1550-nm vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers with parallel polarizations and long delay time

A. Quirce, A. Valle, H. Thienpont, and K. Panajotov
J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 33(1) 90-98 (2016)

Polarization dynamics of a multimode vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser subject to orthogonal optical injection

Hong Lin, Yu Zhang, David W. Pierce, Ana Quirce, and Angel Valle
J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 29(4) 867-873 (2012)