Bifurcation structure of a swept-source laser.

Kovalev, A V; Dmitriev, P S; Vladimirov, A G; Pimenov, A; Huyet, G; Viktorov, E A · Phys Rev E · 2020

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

We numerically analyze a delay differential equation model of a short-cavity semiconductor laser with an intracavity frequency-swept filter and reveal a complex bifurcation structure responsible for the asymmetry of the output characteristics of this laser. We show that depending on the direction of the frequency sweep of a narrow-band filter, there exist two bursting cycles determined by different parts of a continuous-wave solutions branch.