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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in Optical Technologies Volume 2012, Article ID 247070, 10 pages doi:10.1155/2012/247070 Review Article Dynamics of 1.55 µm Wavelength Single-Mode Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser Output under External Optical Injection Kyong Hon Kim, Seoung Hun Lee, and Vijay Manohar Deshmukh Department of Physics, Inha University, Incheon 402-751, Republic of Korea Correspondence should be addressed to Kyong Hon Kim, kyongh@inha.ac.kr Received 21 May 2012; Accepted 22 September 2012 Academic Editor: Zoran Ikonic Copyright © 2012 Kyong Hon Kim et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. We review the temporal dynamics of the laser output spectrum and polarization state of 1.55 μm wavelength single-mode (SM) vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) induced by external optical beam injection. Injection of an external continuous- wave laser beam to a gain-switched SM VCSEL near the resonance wavelength corresponding to its main polarization-mode output was critical for improvement of its laser pulse generation characteristics, such as pulse timing-jitter reduction, linewidth narrowing, pulse amplitude enhancement, and pulse width shortening. Pulse injection of pulse width shorter than the cavity photon lifetime into the SM VCSEL in the orthogonal polarization direction with respect to its main polarization mode caused temporal delay of the polarization recovery after polarization switching (PS), and its delay was found to be the minimum at an optimized bias current. Polarization-mode bistability was observed even in the laser output of an SM VCSEL o