Experimental conditions for anticipating chaotic synchronisation in external cavity laser diodes

Summary form only given. Recently we reported an experimental demonstration of this effect using semiconductor lasers. Numerical studies of chaos synchronisation in semiconductor lasers with optical feedback have been reported recently. In this paper we study, experimentally and numerically a) the conditions under which the anticipating synchronisation becomes lag synchronisation and b) the effect of external cavity parameters on the anticipating synchronisation. We have used two single-mode, Fabry-Perot diode lasers emitting at 830 nm.