@Article{Supelec277,
author = {Marc Sciamanna and Ignace Gatare and Alexandre Locquet and Krassimir Panajotov},
title = {{Polarization synchronization in unidirectionally coupled vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers}},
journal = {Physical Review E},
year = {2007},
volume = {75},
pages = {056213-1-10},
month = {may},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.75.056213},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevE.75.056213},
abstract = {We analyze theoretically the polarization dynamics in
unidirectionally coupled vertical-cavity surfaceemitting
lasers VCSELs. The master VCSEL is subject to an isotropic
optical feedback. The slave VCSEL is
subject to an orthogonal optical injection from the master VCSEL,
i.e., only the linearly polarized mode orthogonal to the dominant
linearly polarized mode of the free-running slave VCSEL is
injected into the slave VCSEL. This laser configuration may lead
the slave VCSEL polarization to switch to that of the injected
master laser field. The injected power required for polarization
switching depends on the frequency detuning. We identify in the
plane of the injection parameters two regions of enhanced
synchronization between the injected LP mode and the
corresponding slave LP mode. In the so-called region II the slave
VCSEL exhibits anticorrelated dynamics in its two LP modes while
in the so-called region I the slave VCSEL exhibits dynamics in
only one LP mode, which corresponds to the polarization of the
injected field. The two regions exhibit different synchronization
properties in both the LP mode dynamics and total intensity
dynamics. We furthermore analyze the dependency of the
synchronization quality on the parameter mismatch between master
and slave VCSELs and on the polarization switching properties of
each VCSEL.},
hal = {hal-00207589}
}