Bifurcations to chaos in a semiconductor laser with phase-conjugate feedback

Author

Krauskopf, Bernd ; Green, Kirk

Author_Institution

Dept. of Eng. Math., Bristol Univ., UK

Volume

1

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

62

Abstract

Due to possible applications, such as mode locking, phase locking, and frequency control, there has been considerable interest recently in the nonlinear dynamics of a semiconductor laser subject to phase-conjugate feedback (PCF). We present a detailed study of bifurcations to chaos involving tori in the system. This is made possible by the new numerical technique of computing what are called unstable manifolds of periodic orbits of saddle type, which we developed for this purpose. These manifolds are one-dimensional curves in a suitable Poincare section, and knowing them is tantamount to knowing the dynamics of the system

Keywords

bifurcation; laser feedback; laser mode locking; optical chaos; optical phase conjugation; semiconductor lasers; Poincare section; bifurcations; frequency control; laser mode locking; laser phase locking; nonlinear dynamics; optical chaos; periodic orbits; phase-conjugate feedback; semiconductor laser; unstable manifolds; Bifurcation; Chaos; Delay systems; Kirk field collapse effect; Laser feedback; Laser mode locking; Laser stability; Laser transitions; Orbits; Semiconductor lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society 2000 Annual Meeting. LEOS 2000. 13th Annual Meeting. IEEE

Conference_Location

Rio Grande

ISSN

1092-8081

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5947-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.2000.890674

Filename

890674