@InProceedings{Supelec570,
author = {Marc Sciamanna and Lukasz Olejniczak and Ignace Gatare and Krassimir Panajotov and Hugo Thienpont and Angel Valle},
title = {{Semiconductor lasers nonlinear dynamics: complexity made useful}},
year = {2009},
booktitle = {{ICTON Mediterranean Winter (ICTON-MW'09)}},
month = {dec},
note = {(invited talk)},
address = {Angers (France)},
abstract = {I summarize here some of our recent contributions to the
understanding and applications of semiconductor nonlinear
dynamics. Interplay between polarization switching properties of
VCSELs and external optical injection/optical feedback/current
modulation gives rise to a rich variety of new dynamical
phenomena characterized by multimode behavior, bistability,
self-pulsing, noise-induced or noise-sustained instabilities. In
these configurations control of polarization is possible but also
new perspectives can be expected where the dynamical complexity
would help for all-optical signal processing. I will conclude
with recent theoretical and experimental works on polarization
and nonlinear dynamical properties of quantum dot semiconductor
lasers. }
}