Physical Review A
Volume 47, Issues 1, 736-739
January 1993
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Bistability and chaos in an injection-locked semiconductor laser
Eok-Kyun Leea, Hyun-Soo Panga, Jong-Dae Parkb, Hoyun Leec
aDepartment of Chemistry, Korea Advanced Institute of Science Technology, Taejon 305-701, Korea
bDepartment of Physics, Pai-Chai University, Taejon 302-162, Republic of Korea
cDepartment of Physics, Chungnam National University, Taejon 305-764, Republic of Korea
We present a theoretical investigation of complex dynamical behaviors of an injection-locked semiconductor laser. A period-doubling bifurcation route to chaos and bistability has been identified. The boundaries for period-doubling bifurcations and chaos are mapped out in the injection-level-frequency-detuning plane. It was shown that there exist two locally stable attractors of limit cycles. The centers of the attractors shift nonlinearly with injection level. The shift of the center of the electric-field phase is estimated by the harmonic balance method.