TB Simpson

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a modern approach to the theoretical and experimental study of complex nonlinear behavior of a semiconductor laser with optical injection-an example of a widely applied and technologically relevant forced nonlinear oscillator, and show that careful bifurcation analysis of a rate equation model yields a deeper understanding of already studied physical phenomena, and discovery of new dynamical effects, such as multipulse excitability.

TL;DR: Unprecedented agreement is demonstrated between a theoretical two-dimensional bifurcation diagram and the corresponding experimental stability map of an optically injected semiconductor laser over a large range of relevant injection parameter values.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show how bifurcation theory and experimental measurements can be used hand-in-hand to analyse transitions to complicated dynamics in a semiconductor laser subject to optical injection.

TL;DR: In this paper, the output characteristics of a single-mode semiconductor laser under external optical injection are mapped as a function of the strength of the optical injection and the detuning between the injection frequency and the frequency of the unperturbed laser.