@Article{Supelec254,
author = {Ignace Gatare and Krassimir Panajotov and Marc Sciamanna},
title = {{Frequency-induced polarization bistability in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers with orthogonal optical injection}},
journal = {Physical Review A},
year = {2007},
volume = {75},
pages = {023804-1-7},
month = {feb},
url = {http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRA/v75/e023804},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevA.75.023804},
abstract = {We report theoretically on a pure frequency-induced polarization
bistability in a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL)
subject to orthogonal optical injection, i.e., the master laser
light polarization is orthogonal to that of the slave VCSEL. As
the frequency detuning is scanned from negative to positive
values and for a fixed injected power, the VCSEL exhibits two
successive and possibly bistable polarization switchings. The
first switching (from the slave laser polarization to the
injected light polarization) exhibits a bistablee region whose
width is maximum for a given value of the injected power. Such a
dependency of hysteresis width on the injected power is similar
to that recently found experimentally by Hong et al.[Electron.
Lett. 36, 2019 (2000)]. The bistability accompanying the second
switching (from the injected light polarization back to the slave
laser free-running polarization)exhibits, however, significantly
different features related to the occurrence of optical chaos.
Interestingly, the width of the bistable region can be tuned over
a large range not only by modifying the injection parameters but
also by modifying the device parameters, in particular the VCSEL
linewidth enhancement factor.},
hal = {hal-00207500}
}