Citation:Goulding, D., Hegarty, S. P., Rasskazov, O., Melnik, S., Hartnett, M., Greene, G., McInerney, J. G., Rachinskii, D. and Huyet, G. (2007) 'Excitability in a quantum dot semiconductor laser with optical injection', Physical Review Letters, 98(15), 153903 (4pp). doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.153903
We experimentally analyze the dynamics of a quantum dot semiconductor laser operating under optical injection. We observe the appearance of single- and double-pulse excitability at one boundary of the locking region. Theoretical considerations show that these pulses are related to a saddle-node bifurcation on a limit cycle as in the Adler equation. The double pulses are related to a period-doubling bifurcation and occur on the same homoclinic curve as the single pulses.
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