https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2008-00069-3
Comparison of different switching techniques in a cavity soliton laser
1
CNR–INFM, CNISM and Dipartimento di Fisica e Matematica, Università dell'Insubria, via Valleggio 11, 22100 Como, Italy
2
Research Institute for Applied Physics and Astronomy, University of Tabriz, 51665-163, Tabriz, Iran
Corresponding author: a franco.prati@uninsubria.it
Received:
9
August
2007
Revised:
15
January
2008
Published online:
18
April
2008
We compare three different switching techniques for the control of cavity solitons in a VCSEL-based cavity soliton laser, one incoherent and the other two semicoherent with different injection frequencies. We show that the switching dynamics and energies can be very different depending on the type of injection.
PACS: 42.65.Tg – Optical solitons; nonlinear guided waves / 42.65.Sf – Dynamics of nonlinear optical systems; optical instabilities, optical chaos and complexity, and optical spatio-temporal dynamics / 42.55.Px – Semiconductor lasers; laser diodes
© EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag, 2008
