1. Departamento de Matemáticas, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Oviedo, C/Calvo Sotelo s/n, 33007, Oviedo, Spain 2. Instituto de Física de Cantabria, CSIC-Universidad de Cantabria, Avda. Los Castros s/n, 39005, Santander, Spain
Abstract:
A theoretical study of the effect of optical injection on the characteristics of pulses generated by gain-switched single and multimode VCSELs is performed. It is shown that a jitter reduction greater than 50% can be obtained with a slight increase in pulse width. Similar results are obtained for single and multimode emission when the light is injected in the dominant mode.