Deterministic polarization chaos from a laser diode

Nature Photonics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 60-65

  Virte, Martin ^a,b   Panajotov, Krassimir ^b,c   Thienpont, Hugo ^b   Sciamanna, Marc ^a  

^a SUPELEC   (France)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^c INSTITUTE OF SOLID STATE PHYSICS   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETERMINISTIC CHAOS; DOUBLE-SCROLL ATTRACTORS; FREE-RUNNING LASERS; NON-LINEAR OSCILLATORS; PARAMETER MODULATION; POLARIZATION CHAOS; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES; VERTICAL-CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASER;

POLARIZATION;

EID: 84871941792     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2012.286     Document Type: Article

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