Summary form only given. A semiconductor laser subject to optical feedback exhibits very rich and complex dynamical behavior which may enhance or degrade the laser's performance significantly. We investigate a single mode semiconductor laser pumped near threshold and subject to weak optical feedback from a short distance. We find both experimentally and numerically that as the feedback strength is increased the laser undergoes a cascade of bifurcations as one external cavity mode becomes unstable and the next one with higher intensity becomes stable only to be destabilized and to be replaced by the next stable external cavity mode.
Stabilization of instabilities in a semiconductor laser subject to optical feedback
1998-01-01
155775 byte
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
Stabilization of Instabilities in a Semiconductor Laser Subject to Optical Feedback
British Library Conference Proceedings | 1998
|Taming Chaos in Semiconductor Lasers Subject to Optical Feedback
British Library Conference Proceedings | 1993
|British Library Conference Proceedings | 2001
|