@Article{Supelec475,
author = {Angel Valle and Mikel Arizaleta Arteaga and Hugo Thienpont and Krassimir Panajotov and Marc Sciamanna},
title = {{Transverse mode competition effects on the dynamics of gain-switched vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers}},
journal = {Applied Physics Letters},
year = {2008},
volume = {93},
number = {13},
pages = {131103-1-3},
month = {sep},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2992630},
doi = {10.1063/1.2992630},
abstract = {An experimental analysis of the nonlinear dynamics of a
multi-transverse-mode vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser
(VCSEL) when subject to a high-frequency current modulation is
performed. Regular periodic dynamics—with periods equal to the
modulation period or twice the modulation period—and irregular
pulsating dynamics are obtained. Our results show that the
irregular pulsating dynamics in multimode VCSELs subject to
large-signal current modulation is due to the competition between
different transverse modes.}
}