Excitability in a Quantum Dot Semiconductor Laser with Optical Injection
David Goulding, Stephen P. Hegarty, Oleg Rasskazov, Sergey Melnik, M. Hartnett, Garrett Greene, John Gerard McInerney, Dmitrii I. Rachinskii, G. Huyet · Physical Review Letters · 2007
We experimentally analyze the dynamics of a quantum dot semiconductor laser operating under optical injection. We observe the appearance of single- and double-pulse excitability at one boundary of the locking region. Theoretical considerations show that these pulses are related to a saddle-node bifurcation on a limit cycle as in the Adler equation. The double pulses are related to a period-doubling bifurcation and occur on the same homoclinic curve as the single pulses.