Abstract
We report on the formation of novel turbulent coherent structures in a long cavity semiconductor laser near the lasing threshold. Experimentally, the laser emits a series of power dropouts within a roundtrip, and the number of dropouts per series depends on a set of parameters including the bias current. At fixed parameters, the drops remain dynamically stable, repeating over many roundtrips. By reconstructing the laser electric field in the case where the laser emits one dropout per roundtrip and simulating its dynamics using a time-delayed model, we discuss the reasons for long-term sustainability of these solutions. We suggest that the observed dropouts are closely related to the coherent structures of the cubic complex Ginzburg–Landau equation.
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Uday Gowda, Amy Roche, Alexander Pimenov, Andrei G. Vladimirov, Svetlana Slepneva, Evgeny A. Viktorov, and Guillaume Huyet, "Turbulent coherent structures in a long cavity semiconductor laser near the lasing threshold: publisher’s note," Opt. Lett. 45, 5500-5500 (2020)https://opg.optica.org/ol/abstract.cfm?uri=ol-45-19-5500
18 September 2020: A typographical correction was made to the author email address.
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