@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. }
}