Chaotic polarization dynamics and chaos synchronization in VCSELs

Marc Sciamanna (1) , Krassimir Panajotov (2, 3) , Ignace Gatare (2) , Hugo Thienpont (2) , Ángel Valle (4) , Mikel Arizaleta Arteaga (2) , Atsushi Uchida (5)

1 LMOPS - Laboratoire Matériaux Optiques, Photonique et Systèmes
2 TONA - Department of Applied Physics and Photonics [Brussels]
3 ISSP - Institut of the Solid State Physics
4 IFCA - Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria
5 Department of Information and Computer Sciences

We review our recent results related to nonlinear polarization dynamics and chaos in VCSELs. The possibility to generate multimode chaos motivates the study of chaos synchronization in coupled VCSELs and its application for secure communications.

Domains: Physics [physics]; Physics [physics]; Optics [physics.optics]

Marc Sciamanna, Krassimir Panajotov, Ignace Gatare, Hugo Thienpont, Ángel Valle, et al.. Chaotic polarization dynamics and chaos synchronization in VCSELs. Winter Topicals 2009, Jan 2009, Innsbruck, Austria. pp.116-117, ⟨10.1109/LEOSWT.2009.4771684⟩. ⟨hal-00371593⟩