Semiconductor laser with optical feedback: From excitable to deterministic low-frequency fluctuations

Semiconductor lasers with optical feedback present a regime in which power dropouts are observed. Although this regime has been extensively studied, there is no agreement about whether the dropouts are deterministically or stochastically generated. In this paper we will study the statistics of time...

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Autores: Eguia, M.C., Mindlin, G.B.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:1999
País:Argentina
Institución:Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales
Repositorio:Biblioteca Digital (UBA-FCEN)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:paperaa:paper_1063651X_v60_n2B_p1551_Eguia
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_1063651X_v60_n2B_p1551_Eguia
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Feedback
Laser optics
Nonlinear optics
Semiconductor device models
Low-frequency fluctuation (LFF) regime
Noise-driven excitable systems
Semiconductor lasers
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Sumario:Semiconductor lasers with optical feedback present a regime in which power dropouts are observed. Although this regime has been extensively studied, there is no agreement about whether the dropouts are deterministically or stochastically generated. In this paper we will study the statistics of time intervals between dropouts assuming noise-driven simple excitable models. We explain the appearance of characteristic times in the first return maps. © 1999 The American Physical Society.