FREQUENCY LOCKING, QUASIPERIODICITY, SUBHARMONIC BIFURCATIONS AND CHAOS IN HIGH FREQUENCY MODULATED STRIPE GEOMETRY DH SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS

Abstract

The method of obtaining self-consistent solutions of the field equation and the rate equations of photon density and carrier concentration has been used to study frequency locking, quasiperiodicity, subharmonic bifurcations and chaos in high frequency modulated stripe geometry DH semiconductor lasers. The results show that the chaotic behavior arises in self-pulsing stripe geometry semiconductor lasers. The route to chaos is not period-double, but quasiperiodicity to chaos. All of the results agree with the experiments. Some obscure points in previous theory about chaos have been cleared up.