Multipulse Excitability in a Semiconductor Laser with Optical Injection

Sebastian Wieczorek, Bernd Krauskopf, and Daan Lenstra
Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 063901 – Published 25 January 2002
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Abstract

An optically injected semiconductor laser can produce excitable multipulses. Homoclinic bifurcation curves confine experimentally accessible regions in parameter space where the laser emits a certain number of pulses after being triggered from its steady state by a single perturbation. This phenomenon is organized by a generic codimension-two homoclinic bifurcation and should also be observable in other systems.

  • Received 3 October 2001

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.063901

©2002 American Physical Society

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Sebastian Wieczorek1, Bernd Krauskopf2,*, and Daan Lenstra1

  • 1Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1081, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • 2Department of Engineering Mathematics, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TR, United Kingdom

  • *Corresponding author. Email address: B.Krauskopf@bristol.ac.uk

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Vol. 88, Iss. 6 — 11 February 2002

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