Abstract: A first analysis of fluctuations of the light intensity of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers operating in a bistable regime reveals the presence of 1/f noise. In this regime the intensity fluctuates between two recently characterized states with residence times {?1} and {?2}. We identify three distinct processes. One of them presents a coherence enhancement phenomenon, and in the other two the distribution of residence times in one of the states follows either a power law P(?1)??1-2 or P(?2)??2-2, and this is the cause of the 1/f shape in the spectral density of the intensity. The process at the coherence enhancement zone shows 1/f fluctuations in the light intensity and also in the time residence process. It is shown that the origin of these fluctuations is due to a power-law distribution in the time separation between pulses observed in the time residence series.

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