Frequency locking, quasiperiodicity, and chaos in modulated self-pulsing semiconductor lasers
- 10 March 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 48 (10), 616-618
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.96771
Abstract
A transition to chaos via quasiperiodicity is observed in the output of a directly modulated self-pulsing semiconductor laser. By sweeping the frequency and amplitude of the current modulation, several frequency-locked states (Arnol’d tongues) are mapped out directly. Good agreement with the predictions of a rate equation model is obtained.Keywords
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