Dynamics of periodically forced semiconductor laser with optical feedback

JORGE M. MENDEZ; RODRIGO LAJE; MASSIMO GIUDICI; JORGE ALIAGA; GABRIEL B. MINDLIN

PHYSICAL REVIEW E - STATISTICAL PHYSICS, PLASMAS, FLUIDS AND RELATED INTERDISCIPLINARY TOPICS

AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY

Año: 2001 vol. 63 p. 662181 - 662186

1063-651X

Recently it was proposed that semiconductor lasers with optical feedback present a regime where they behave as noise driven excitable units. In this work we report on an experimental study in which we periodically force one of these lasers and we compare the results with the solutions of a simple model. The comparison is based on a topological analysis of experimental and theoretical solutions.