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Chaos crisis and bistability of self-pulsing dynamics in a laser diode with phase-conjugate feedback

Journal Article · · Physical Review. A
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  1. Supelec, OPTEL Research Group, Laboratoire Materiaux Optiques, Photonique et Systemes, EA-4423, 2 rue Edouard Belin, F-57070 Metz (France)

A laser diode subject to a phase-conjugate optical feedback can exhibit rich nonlinear dynamics and chaos. We report here on two bifurcation mechanisms that appear when increasing the amount of light being fed back to the laser. First, we report on a full suppression of chaos from a crisis induced by a saddle-node bifurcation on self-pulsing, so-called external-cavity-mode solutions (ECMs). Second, the feedback-dependent torus and saddle-node bifurcations on ECMs may be responsible for large regions of bistability between ECMs of different and high (beyond gigahertz) frequencies.

OSTI ID:
22093392
Journal Information:
Physical Review. A, Journal Name: Physical Review. A Journal Issue: 4 Vol. 84; ISSN 1050-2947; ISSN PLRAAN
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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