Excitability in optical systems close to Z₂-symmetry

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2009.11.070zbMATH Open1235.78029arXiv1108.3738OpenAlexW2026031920MaRDI QIDQ763902FDOQ763902

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

Publication date: 2 April 2012

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

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.

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

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zbMATH Keywords

fluctuationsnonlinear dynamicsstochastic dynamicsexcitabilitysemiconductor ring laser

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lasers, masers, optical bistability, nonlinear optics (78A60) 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) Statistical mechanics of semiconductors (82D37)

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• Elements of applied bifurcation theory

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