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Instability and Chaos in Various Laser Structures

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Except for narrow-stripe edge-emitting semiconductor lasers, various types of laser structures have been proposed. They are proposed to compensate insufficient characteristics of narrow-stripe edge-emitting semiconductor lasers, however, those new types of devices intrinsically have unstable features even in their solitary oscillations. Also, the instability is greatly enhanced by the introduction of optical feedback and optical injection. We derive the rate equations for each semiconductor laser with a new structure and discuss its dynamic properties.

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Ohtsubo, J. (2013). Instability and Chaos in Various Laser Structures. In: Semiconductor Lasers. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 111. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30147-6_8

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