Period-doubling cascades and chaos in a semiconductor laser with optical injection
- 1 May 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 51 (5) , 4181-4185
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.51.4181
Abstract
We characterize the nonlinear dynamics of a semiconductor laser subject to optical injection. The key characteristics of measured optical spectra are reproduced in calculations based on a single-mode model that includes spontaneous-emission noise. The laser exhibits chaos over a bounded range of injection levels. As the chaotic regime is approached from both lower and higher injection levels, a period-doubling route to chaos is followed, although the route is obscured by spontaneous-emission noise. A new, bounded regime of period-doubling occurs for injection levels well above the region of chaotic dynamics. Optical injection strongly modifies the carrier-field resonance coupling frequency.Keywords
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