Semiconductor ring laser subject to delayed optical feedback: Bifurcations and stability

Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 4767-4779

  Ermakov, Ilya V ^a,b   Van der Sande, Guy ^a   Danckaert, Jan ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Delayed optical feedback; Semiconductor ring laser

Indexed keywords

RING LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

BI-DIRECTIONAL; DELAYED OPTICAL FEEDBACK; DYNAMICAL REGIME; EXTERNAL CAVITY; FEEDBACK PHASE; FEEDBACK STRENGTH; PARAMETER REGIONS; SEMICONDUCTOR RING LASERS; SYMMETRICS; TWO-CAVITY;

OPTICAL FEEDBACK;

EID: 84864401543     PISSN: 10075704     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cnsns.2012.04.005     Document Type: Article

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