@article{10902/35071,
year = {2017},
month = {11},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/10902/35071},
abstract = {We present experimental and theoretical results of bistable polarization switching in a single transverse mode 1550 nm vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) subject to parallel optical injection. We focus our analysis on the bistability induced by power variation of the master laser found on the recently observed state of simultaneous injection locking of the parallel polarization mode and excitation of the orthogonal polarization mode, IL+PS. Experimental stability maps identifying, in the injected power-frequency detuning plane, where this state is observed, and corresponding bistable regions are reported for several bias currents. We find bistability between the IL+PS state and the single polarization mode injection locked solution. We also find bistability between the IL+PS and different periodic dynamics in the parallel polarization mode. The width of the hysteresis cycle increases when increasing the bias current or when increasing the wavelength of the optical injection beyond the solitary VCSEL wavelength. We theoretically confirm these types of bistability by numerically simulating the spin-flip model and by performing a linear stability analysis for the different stable states. Excellent agreement is found between experimental and theoretical results.},
organization = {This work was funded by the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO/FEDER, UE), Spain under project TEC2015-65212-C3-1-P. The work of F. Denis-le Coarer and M. Sciamanna was supported by the Prefecture de Rgion Grand-Est through the projects FEDER (PHOTON, APOLLO) and FNADT (APOLLO, PIANO) and by AIRBUS-GDI Simulation, Metz Metropole, Conseil Départemental de Moselle, Conseil Regional Grand-Est, Préfecture de Région Grand-Est through the funding of the Chair in Photonics. The work of A. Quirce was supported by the Fonds Wetenschappelijk for the Post-Doctoral Fellowship. The work of H. Thienpont and K. Panajotov was supported by the Methusalem foundation.},
publisher = {Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.},
publisher = {IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 2017, 23(6), 1800910},
title = {Injection locking and polarization switching bistability in a 1550nm-VCSEL subject to parallel optical injection},
author = {Denis-le Coarer, Florian and Quirce Teja, Ana and Pérez García, Pablo and Valle Gutiérrez, Ángel and Pesquera Gonzalez, Luis and Sciamanna, Marc and Thienpont, Hugo and Panajotov, Krassimir},
}