Abstract
We introduce a spin-flip model for a broad-area vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) with a saturable absorber. We demonstrate simultaneous existence of orthogonally linearly polarized and elliptically polarized cavity solitons. We show that polarization degree of freedom leads to a period-doubling route to spatially localized chaos of the elliptically polarized cavity solitons.
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