title: Vector cavity solitons in broad area Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers.
abstract: We report the experimental observation of two-dimensional vector cavity solitons in a Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser (VCSEL) under linearly polarized optical injection when varying optical injection linear polarization direction. The polarization of the cavity soliton is not the one of the optical injection as it acquires a distinct ellipticity. These experimental results are qualitatively reproduced by the spin-flip VCSEL model. Our findings open the road to polarization multiplexing when using cavity solitons in broad-area lasers as pixels in information technology.
authors: Faculté des Sciences, Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, 1050, Belgium.|Brussels Photonics Team, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, 1050, Belgium.
authors: Etienne
authors: E
authors: Averlant
authors: Faculté des Sciences, Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, 1050, Belgium.
authors: Mustapha
authors: M
authors: Tlidi
authors: Brussels Photonics Team, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, 1050, Belgium.
authors: Hugo
authors: H
authors: Thienpont
authors: SUPA and department of physics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, G40NG, United Kingdom.
authors: Thorsten
authors: T
authors: Ackemann
authors: Brussels Photonics Team, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, 1050, Belgium.|Institute of solid state physics, Sofia, 1784, Bulgaria.
authors: Krassimir
authors: K
authors: Panajotov