Dynamics of vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser subject to optical injection and positive optoelectronic feedback

Abstract

Based on the spin-flip model (SFM), we theoretically investigate the dynamics of a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) subject to optical injection and positive optoelectronic feedback. The results show that under the joint action of positive optoelectronic feedback and optical injection from a master VCSEL (M-VCSEL), two polarization modes of a slave VCSEL (S-VCSEL) will show many dynamic states such as period one, period two, multi-period and chaos, and the evolution routes of these states are different for two polarization modes. Mapping of dynamic region as a function of feedback strength f and injection strength is varied with frequency detuning between M-VCSEL and S-VCSEL (=m-s, where m ands are the free-running frequencies of M-VCSEL and S-VCSEL, respectively). Compared with the case for zero or negative frequency detuning, the region of chaotic state is expanded significantly under positive . For a fixed , the influences of f and on the chaotic bandwidth of S-VCSEL are discussed. Through selecting proper f and , chaotic bandwidth of S-VCSEL can be improved obviously.