WIAS Preprint No. 1334, (2008)

Bifurcations in a model of monolithic passively mode-locked semiconductor laser



Authors

  • Vladimirov, Andrei G.
    ORCID: 0000-0002-7540-8380
  • Pimenov, Alexander
  • Rachinskii, Dmitrii

2010 Mathematics Subject Classification

  • 78A60 34C23

2008 Physics and Astronomy Classification Scheme

  • 42.60.Fc 42.55.Px 42.60.Mi 42.65.Pc

Keywords

  • semiconductor laser, bifurcations, mode-locking

DOI

10.20347/WIAS.PREPRINT.1334

Abstract

Bifurcation mechanisms of the development and break up of different operation regimes in a passively mode-locked monolithic semiconductor laser are studied by solving numerically partial differential equations for amplitudes of two counterpropagating waves and carrier densities in gain and absorber sections. It is shown that harmonic mode-locking regime with two pulses in the cavity can exhibit a period-doubling bifurcation leading to different amplitudes and separations of the pulses. The effect of linewidth enhancement factors in gain and absorber sections on the laser dynamics is discussed.

Appeared in

  • IEEE J. Quantum Electron., 45 (2009) pp. 462--468.

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