@Article{Supelec364,
author = {Ignace Gatare and Marc Sciamanna and Michel Nizette and Krassimir Panajotov},
title = {{Bifurcation to polarization switching and locking in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers with optical injection}},
journal = {Physical Review A},
year = {2007},
volume = {76},
pages = {031803(R)-1-4},
month = {sep},
url = { http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.76.031803},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevA.76.031803},
abstract = {We unveil the bifurcations underlying polarization switching and
injection locking in a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser
subject to optical injection. A Hopf bifurcation, not reported
for conventional edgeemitting lasers, delimits the injection
locking region and influences the polarization switching
conditions. We furthermore theoretically show and experimentally
observe periodic dynamics at the relaxation oscillation frequency
in the noninjected mode together with wave-mixing dynamics in the
injected mode. These dynamics precede the polarization switching
leading to injection locking and are attributed to a torus
bifurcation arising on a two-polarization mode solution.},
hal = {hal-00207629}
}