Polarization and tranverse mode nonlinear dynamics in a multimode VCSEL
Optics
2025-12-23 v2 Chaotic Dynamics
Abstract
We theoretically analyze the nonlinear dynamics and routes to chaos in a multimode vertical cavity surface-emitting laser (MM-VCSEL) in free-running operation. Including higher order transverse modes (TMs) results in additional bifurcations at higher currents not found for single-mode VCSELs (SM-VCSELs). The resulting dynamics involve competition between modes with different transverse profiles and polarization and show good qualitative agreement with recent experiments.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2507.01186,
title = {Polarization and tranverse mode nonlinear dynamics in a multimode VCSEL},
author = {Yohann G. Sanvert and Jules Mercadier and Stefan Bittner and Angel Valle and Marc Sciamanna},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.01186},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
5 pages, 4 figures