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Phys. Rev. A 50, 2719–2726 (1994)

Antimode dynamics and chaotic itinerancy in the coherence collapse of semiconductor lasers with optical feedback

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Takuya Sano
NTT Transmission Systems Laboratories, 1-2356 Take, Yokosuka, Kanagawa 238-03, Japan

Received 9 December 1993; published in the issue dated September 1994

Low-frequency fluctuations observed in the coherence collapse of semiconductor lasers are numerically investigated based on the Lang-Kobayashi model. It is found that the attractor in the compound cavity mode loses its stability due to a crisis with an antimode. Chaotic itinerancy among the destabilized compound cavity modes is also found.

© 1994 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.50.2719
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.50.2719
PACS:
42.50.Ne, 42.55.Px, 42.60.Mi, 05.45.+b