Abstract
On the way to chaotic evolution, periodicity, bistability, and multistability are observed, such as in the outputs of semiconductor lasers with optical feedback. The system of optical feedback in a semiconductor laser is sometimes called self-mixing semiconductor laser. In a periodic state, the laser output shows not simply periodic oscillation but also hysteresis. Novel applications have been proposed based on these phenomena, for example, a displacement measurement is performed by counting the fringes obtained from bistable self-mixing interference between the internal field and the optical feedback light in the laser cavity. The direction of the displacement is simultaneously determined from asymmetric waveforms showing hysteresis.
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Ohtsubo, J. (2013). Metrology Based on Chaotic Semiconductor Lasers. In: Semiconductor Lasers. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 111. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30147-6_11
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