Chaotic spiking and incomplete homoclinic scenarios in semiconductor lasers with optoelectronic feedback

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作者
Al-Naimee, Kais [1 ,2 ]
Marino, Francesco [3 ]
Ciszak, Marzena [1 ]
Meucci, Riccardo [1 ]
Arecchi, F. Tito [1 ,3 ]
机构
[1] CNR, Ist Nazl Ott Applicata, I-50125 Florence, Italy
[2] Univ Baghdad, Coll Sci, Dept Chem, Baghdad, Iraq
[3] Univ Florence, Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Firenze, Dipartimento Fis, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, FI, Italy
来源
NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS | 2009年 / 11卷
关键词
MIXED-MODE OSCILLATIONS; CHEMICAL-SYSTEMS; INSTABILITIES; DYNAMICS; SUBJECT;
D O I
10.1088/1367-2630/11/7/073022
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
We demonstrate experimentally and theoretically the existence of slow chaotic spiking sequences in the dynamics of a semiconductor laser with ac-coupled optoelectronic feedback. The timescale of these dynamics is fully determined by the high-pass filter in the feedback loop and their erratic, though deterministic, nature is evidenced by means of the interspike interval (ISI) probability distribution. We eventually show that this regime is the result of an incomplete homoclinic scenario to a saddle-focus, where an exact homoclinic connection does not occur.
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