Excitability in optical systems close to Z₂-symmetry

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2009.11.070MaRDI QIDQ763902zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Stefano Beri, Lilia Mashall, Lendert Gelens, Guy Van Der Sande, Gabor Mezosi, Marc Sorel, Guy Verschaffelt, Jan Danckaert

Publication date 2 April 2012

Published in Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1108.3738

zbMATH Keywords

excitabilityfluctuationsnonlinear dynamicssemiconductor ring laserstochastic dynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems and their relations with probability theory and stochastic processes (37A50) General theory of infinite-dimensional dissipative dynamical systems, nonlinear semigroups, evolution equations (37L05) Lasers, masers, optical bistability, nonlinear optics (78A60) Statistical mechanics of semiconductors (82D37)

Abstract: We report theoretically and experimentally on excitability in semiconductor ring lasers in order to reveal a mechanism of excitability, general for systems close to Z2-symmetry. The global shapes of the invariant manifolds of a saddle in the vicinity of a homoclinic loop determine the origin of excitability and the fea- tures of the excitable pulses. We show how to experimentally make a semiconductor ring laser excitable by breaking the Z2-symmetry in a controlled way. The experiments confirm the theoretical predictions.

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