title: Impact of light polarization on chaos synchronization of mutually coupled VCSELs.
abstract: We demonstrate that dynamical polarization switching in mutually coupled vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) has a profound impact on the chaotic dynamics in the system drastically improving the in-phase (anti-phase) synchronization between the modes of the two VCSELs with the same (orthogonal) polarizations. Furthermore, an exchange of the leader-laggard role is observed with the higher (lower) frequency VCSEL being the leader for lower (higher) coupling strength.
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Physics and Photonics (TW-TONA), Vrije Univeristeit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium.
authors.forename: Krassimir
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Panajotov
authors.forename: Marc
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sciamanna
authors.forename: Hugo
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Thienpont
authors.forename: Atsushi
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Uchida