Quasiperiodic instability and chaos in the bad-cavity laser with modulated inversion: Numerical analysis of a Toda oscillator system

Journal Article · Wed Jun 01 04:00:00 EDT 1988 · Phys. Rev. A; (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.37.4286· OSTI ID:5215522

Ogawa, T

The exact equivalence between a bad-cavity laser with modulated inversion and a nonlinear oscillator in a Toda potential driven by an external modulation is presented. The dynamical properties of the laser system are investigated in detail by analyzing a Toda oscillator system. The temporal characteristics of the bad-cavity laser under strong modulation are analyzed extensively by numerically investigating the simpler Toda system as a function of two control parameters: the dc component of the population inversion and the modulation amplitude. The system exhibits two kinds of optical chaos: One is the quasiperiodic chaos in the region of the intermediate modulation amplitude and the other is the intermittent kicked chaos in the region of strong modulation and large dc component of the pumping. The former is well described by a one-dimensional discrete map with a singular invariant probability measure. There are two types of onset of the chaos: quasiperiodic instability (continuous path to chaos) and catastrophic crisis (discontinuous path). The period-doubling cascade of bifurcation is also observed. The simple discrete model of the Toda system is presented to obtain analytically the one-dimensional map function and to understand the effect of the asymmetric potential curvature on yielding chaos.

• Research Organization: Department of Applied Physics, Faculty of Engineering, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113, Japan
• OSTI ID: 5215522
• Journal Information: Phys. Rev. A; (United States), Journal Name: Phys. Rev. A; (United States) Vol. 37:11; ISSN PLRAA
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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OSCILLATORS
POPULATION INVERSION
SIMULATION