Ghost stochastic resonance in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers: experiment and theory

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2005 Jul;72(1 Pt 2):016113. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.72.016113. Epub 2005 Jul 18.

Abstract

We study the polarization response of a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser, driven simultaneously by noise and two (or more) weak periodic signals. In the bistable regime, we observe experimentally the occurrence of stochastic resonance at a frequency that is absent in the input driving signal. The presence of this so-called ghost resonance is confirmed theoretically.