Optical injection induced polarization mode switching and correlation analysis on a VCSEL

Abstract

Vertical cavity Surface Emitting Laser (VCSEL) diodes emit light in two polarization modes. The amount of optical feedback is found to influence the intensities of the emitted modes. We investigate the effect of the amount of total output polarization feedback and polarization selective feedback on the intensities of the two emitted polarization modes. A 40 micro seconds resolution time series correlation analysis is done for different feedback conditions and investigate the power spectral continuity and onset of chaos on two polarization modes