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Antiphase dynamics in a multimode semiconductor laser with optical injection

Optics 2009-11-13 v1

Abstract

A detailed experimental study of antiphase dynamics in a two-mode semiconductor laser with optical injection is presented. The device is a specially designed Fabry-Perot laser that supports two primary modes with a THz frequency spacing. Injection in one of the primary modes of the device leads to a rich variety of single and two-mode dynamical scenarios, which are reproduced with remarkable accuracy by a four dimensional rate equation model. Numerical bifurcation analysis reveals the importance of torus bifurcations in mediating transitions to antiphase dynamics and of saddle-node of limit cycle bifurcations in switching of the dynamics between single and two-mode regimes.

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@article{arxiv.0812.0525,
  title  = {Antiphase dynamics in a multimode semiconductor laser with optical injection},
  author = {S. Osborne and A. Amann and K. Buckley and G. Ryan and S. P. Hegarty and G. Huyet and S. O'Brien},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0812.0525},
  year   = {2009}
}

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7 pages, 9 figures

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