Self-pulsations of lasers with saturable absorber: Dynamics and bifurcations

Optics Communications

Volumn 159, Issue 4-6, 1999, Pages 325-338

  Dubbeldam, Johan L A ^a   Krauskopf, Bernd ^a,b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bogdanov Takens bifurcation; Laser with saturable absorber; Multistability; Self pulsations; Slow fast dynamics

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); LASER PULSES; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

BOGDANOV-TAKEN BIFURCATION;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0032751970     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0030-4018(98)00568-9     Document Type: Article

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