Two-mode dynamics in different semiconductor laser structures

Alessandro Scirè; Marc Sorel; Pere Colet; Claudio Juan Tessone; Claudio R. Mirasso; Maxi San Miguel

doi:10.1117/12.666703

17 April 2006 Two-mode dynamics in different semiconductor laser structures

Alessandro Scirè, Marc Sorel, Pere Colet, Claudio Juan Tessone, Claudio R. Mirasso, Maxi San Miguel

Proceedings Volume 6184, Semiconductor Lasers and Laser Dynamics II; 618405 (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.666703
Event: SPIE Photonics Europe, 2006, Strasbourg, France

Abstract

We review three two-mode models for different semiconductor laser structures: Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers (VCSELs), Twin-Stripe Semiconductor-Lasers (TSSL), and Semiconductor Ring Lasers (SRL). The VCSELs model and TSSL model display rich dynamic behavior when a saturable absorber is embedded in the cavity. VCSELs with saturable absorber showed polarization chaos, which found applications in encoded communications; TSSLs with saturable absorber show coherent locked states as well as chaotic behavior; and SRLs show a complex two-mode dynamics giving rise to bidirectional operation, alternate oscillations and spontaneous symmetry breaking toward quasi-unidirectional bistable solutions, with potential applications to all-optical switching.

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Alessandro Scirè, Marc Sorel, Pere Colet, Claudio Juan Tessone, Claudio R. Mirasso, and Maxi San Miguel "Two-mode dynamics in different semiconductor laser structures", Proc. SPIE 6184, Semiconductor Lasers and Laser Dynamics II, 618405 (17 April 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.666703

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