title: Optical injection in semiconductor ring lasers: backfire dynamics.
abstract: We report on directional mode switching in semiconductor ring lasers through optical injection co-propagating with the lasing mode. The understanding of this novel feature in ring lasers is based on the particular structure of a two-dimensional asymptotic phase space. Our theoretical results are verified numerically and experimentally.
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Physics and Photonics, Vrije Universiteit Brussel,Brussels, Belgium. lendert.gelens@vub.ac.be
authors.forename: Lendert
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Gelens
authors.forename: Stefano
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Beri
authors.forename: Guy
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Van der Sande
authors.forename: Jan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Danckaert
authors.forename: Nicola
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Calabretta
authors.forename: Harm J S
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Dorren
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Nötzel
authors.forename: Erwin A J M
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Bente
authors.forename: Meint K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Smit
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D017076:Computer-Aided Design; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D054023:Lasers, Semiconductor; D008027:Light; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D055095:Optics and Photonics / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012542:Scattering, Radiation