Study Of Period Doubling In Amplifying III-V Structures

Bruno Thedrez; Jean-Guy Provost; Robert Frey

doi:10.1117/12.961403

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22 December 1989 Study Of Period Doubling In Amplifying III-V Structures

Bruno Thedrez, Jean-Guy Provost, Robert Frey

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Proceedings Volume 1127, Nonlinear Optical Materials II; (1989) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.961403
Event: 1989 International Congress on Optical Science and Engineering, 1989, Paris, France

Abstract

The nearly-degenerate four-wave mixing technique is used in semiconductor lasers in order to demonstrate the essential role played by mixing processes in the period doubling route towards chaos. Using the two-level equivalence for the intracavity gain of semiconductor lasers, resonant four-wave mixing interactions are predicted. Interferences between these mixing processes are shown to be responsible for the dispersive like behavior of the conjugate intensity experimentally observed at half the relaxation oscillation frequency when the pump-probe detuning is varied. The same interferences provide the extra-gain which makes the route towards chaos much more probable via period doubling processes.

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Bruno Thedrez, Jean-Guy Provost, and Robert Frey "Study Of Period Doubling In Amplifying III-V Structures", Proc. SPIE 1127, Nonlinear Optical Materials II, (22 December 1989); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.961403

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