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E A Viktorov

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Low frequency fluctuations in a multimode semiconductor laser with optical feedback.

We study a multimode semiconductor laser subject to a moderate optical feedback. The steady state is destabilized by either a simple Hopf bifurcation leading to in phase dynamics or by a degenerate Hopf bifurcation leading to antiphase dynamics. The degenerate bifurcation is also a source of multiple coexisting attractors. We show that a simple interpretation of the low frequency fluctuations in the multimode regime is provided by a chaotic itinerancy among the many coexisting unstable attractors produced by the degenerate Hopf bifurcation.

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Multidimensional quasiperiodic antiphase dynamics.

We study analytically the (N-1)-fold degenerate Hopf bifurcation at which N stationary modes with identical parameters become unstable in a model of a solid-state laser with intracavity second harmonic generation. We use the normal form method and exploit the symmetries of the problem. Up to N=3, stable periodic antiphased solutions emerge from the Hopf bifurcation. For N=4, stable quasiperiodic solutions arise from the degenerate Hopf bifurcation. For N>4, the quasiperiodic solutions may be unstable. Then chaotic itineracy is observed numerically close to the degenerate Hopf bifurcation.

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