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A new model of a multi-longitudinal-mode semiconductor laser with weak optical feedback is proposed. This model generalizes the well-known Tang-Statz-deMars equations, which are derived from the first principles and adequately describe solid-state lasers to a semiconductor active medium. Steady states of the model and the spectrum of relaxation oscillations are found, and the laser dynamics in the chaotic regime of low-frequency fluctuations of intensity is investigated. It is established that the dynamic properties of the proposed model depend mainly on the carrier diffusion, which controls mode-mode coupling in the active medium via spread of gratings of spatial inversion. The results obtained are compared with the predictions of previous semiphenomenological models and the scope of applicability of these models is determined.
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Original Russian Text © I.V. Koryukin, 2009, published in Fizika i Tekhnika Poluprovodnikov, 2009, Vol. 43, No. 3, pp. 405–411.
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Koryukin, I.V. Dynamics of a multimode semiconductor laser with optical feedback. Semiconductors 43, 387–393 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063782609030245
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