@inproceedings{db0c846d9d9244e9846b8096565f9d9a,
title = "Multipulse excitability in injected lasers",
abstract = "We show that a single-mode semiconductor laser subject to optical injection, and described by rate equations, can produce excitable multipulses, where the laser emits a certain number of pulses after being triggered from its steady state by a single perturbation. This phenomenon occurs in experimentally accessible regions in parameter space that are bounded by curves of n-homoclinic bifurcations, connecting a saddle to itself only at the n-th return to a neighborhood of the saddle. These regions are organised in what we call 'homoclinic teeth' that grow in size and shape with the linewidth enhancement factor.",
keywords = "Excitability, Homoclinic bifurcations, Optical injection, Semiconductor laser",
author = "Bernd Krauskopf and Sebastian Wieczorek and Daan Lenstra",
year = "2003",
doi = "10.1117/12.481841",
language = "English",
volume = "4986",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering",
publisher = "SPIE",
pages = "432--439",
booktitle = "Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering",
note = "PROCEEDINGS OF SPIE SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering: Physics and Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices XI ; Conference date: 27-01-2003 Through 31-01-2003",
}