Abstract
Experiments have yielded polarization self-modulation in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) subject to a polarization-rotating optical feedback. The phenomenon has been simulated numerically, but its bifurcation has never been explained. We show that polarization self-modulation results from a Hopf bifurcation mechanism that can be analyzed in terms of the laser feedback parameters. Our analysis predicts other bifurcations for low values of the feedback rate, which explain why more-complex time-dependent outputs have been observed as alternatives to polarization self-modulation.
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M. Sciamanna, F. Rogister, O. Deparis, P. Mégret, M. Blondel, and T. Erneux, "Bifurcation to polarization self-modulation in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers: errata," Opt. Lett. 27, 875-875 (2002)https://opg.optica.org/ol/abstract.cfm?uri=ol-27-10-875
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