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S. Balle

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arXiv2015

Control and generation of localized pulses in passively mode-locked semiconductor lasers

We show experimentally and theoretically that localized pulses can be generated from an electrically biased $200\,μ$m multi-transverse mode Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser. The device is passively mode-locked using optical feedback from a distant Resonant Saturable Absorber Mirror and it is operated below threshold. We observe multistability between the off solution and a large variety of pulsating solutions with different number and arrangements of pulses per round-trip, thus indicating that the mode-locked pulses are localized, i.e. mutually independent. We show that a modulation of the bias current allows controlling the number of the pulses travelling within the cavity, thus suggesting that our system can be operated as an arbitrary pattern generator of 10 ps pulses and 1 W peak power.

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arXiv2014

Rational Chebyshev Spectral Transform for the dynamics of high-power laser diodes

This manuscript details the use of the rational Chebyshev transform for describing the transverse dynamics of high-power laser diodes, either broad area lasers, index guided lasers or monolithic master oscillator power amplifier devices. This spectral method can be used in combination with the delay algebraic equation approach developed in \cite{JB-OE-12}, which allows to substantially reduce the computation time. The theory is presented in such a way that it encompasses the case of the Fourier spectral transform presented in \cite{PJB-JSTQE-13} as a particular case. It is also extended to the consideration of index guiding with an arbitrary profile. Because their domain of definition is infinite, the convergence properties of the Chebyshev Rational functions allow handling the boundary conditions with higher accuracy than with the previously studied Fourier method. As practical examples, we solve the beam propagation problem with and without index guiding: we obtain excellent results and an improvement of the integration time between one and two orders of magnitude as compared with a fully distributed two dimensional model.

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arXiv2014

Passive Mode-Locking and Tilted Waves in Broad-Area Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers

We show experimentally and theoretically that an electrically biased $200\,μ$m multi-transverse mode Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser can be passively mode-locked using optical feedback from a distant Resonant Saturable Absorber Mirror. This is achieved when one cavity is placed at the Fourier plane of the other. Such non conventional optical feedback leads to the formation of two tilted plane waves traveling in the external cavity with opposite transverse components and alternating in time at every round-trip. Each of these plane waves gives birth to a train of mode-locked pulses separated by twice the external cavity round-trip, while the two trains are time shifted by a round-trip. A large portion of the transverse section of the device contributes to mode-locked emission leading to pulses of approximately 1 W peak power and 10 ps width. We discuss how inhomogeneities in the transverse section of the saturable absorber select the emitted tilted waves, thus leading to tunable emission over 4 nm.

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arXiv2014

Vectorial dissipative solitons in vertical-cavity surface-emitting Lasers with delays

We show that the nonlinear polarization dynamics of a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser placed into an external cavity leads to the formation of temporal vectorial dissipative solitons. These solitons arise as cycles in the polarization orientation, leaving the total intensity constant. When the cavity round-trip is much longer than their duration, several independent solitons as well as bound states (molecules) may be hosted in the cavity. All these solutions coexist together and with the background solution, i.e. the solution with zero soliton. The theoretical proof of localization is given by the analysis of the Floquet exponents. Finally, we reduce the dynamics to a single delayed equation for the polarization orientation allowing interpreting the vectorial solitons as polarization kinks.

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arXiv2006

Multiplicative noise in the longitudinal mode dynamics of a bulk semiconductor laser

We analyze theoretically and experimentally the influence of current noise on the longitudinal mode hopping dynamics of a bulk semiconductor laser. It is shown that the mean residence times on each mode have different sensitivity to external noise added to the bias current. In particular, an increase of the noise level enhances the residence time on the longitudinal mode that dominates at low current, evidencing the multiplicative nature of the stochastic process. A two-mode rate equation model for semiconductor laser is able to reproduce the experimental findings. Under a suitable separation of the involved time scales, the model can be reduced to a 1D bistable potential system with a multiplicative stochastic term related to the current noise strength. The reduced model clarifies the influence of the different noise sources on the hopping dynamics.

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