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Excitability of periodic and chaotic attractors in semiconductor lasers with optoelectronic feedback

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The dynamics of a semiconductor laser with AC-coupled nonlinear optoelectronic feedback has been experimentally studied. A period doubling sequence of small periodic and chaotic attractors is observed, each of them displaying excitable features. This scenario is found also in a simplified physical model of the system, thus extending the concept of excitability, usually associated to fixed points, also to the case of higher-dimensional attractors.

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  1. CNR-Istituto Nazionale di Ottica, Largo E. Fermi 6, 50125, Firenze, Italy

    K. Al-Naimee, M. Ciszak, S. F. Abdalah, R. Meucci & F. T. Arecchi

  2. Physics Department, College of Science, University of Baghdad, Al Jadiriah, Baghdad, Iraq

    K. Al-Naimee

  3. Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Firenze, INFN, Sezione di Firenze, via Sansone 1, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy

    F. Marino

  4. High Institute of Telecommunications and Post, Al Salihiya, Baghdad, Iraq

    S. F. Abdalah

  5. Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Firenze, via Sansone 1, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy

    F. T. Arecchi

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Al-Naimee, K., Marino, F., Ciszak, M. et al. Excitability of periodic and chaotic attractors in semiconductor lasers with optoelectronic feedback. Eur. Phys. J. D 58, 187–189 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2010-00093-8

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