Instabilities and chaos in optically injected semiconductor lasers
Date
1995-11-06Author
Kovanis, Vassilios
Gavrielides, Athanasios
Simpson, Thomas
Liu, Jia-Ming
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We have experimentally obtained and theoretically analyzed a systematic map of the various instabilities induced in a semiconductor laser subject to strong optical injection as the amount of optical injection power and frequency detuning is varied. Two distinct islands of chaos have been identified in the injection-locked region. They are separated by regions of period one and period two solutions. Spontaneous emission noise obscures the observation of high periodic orbits.