Chaos and multi-attractors in fully chaotic 2D microcavity lasers

Takahisa Harayama*, Takehiro Fukushima, Satoshi Sunada, Kensuke S. Ikeda

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Abstract

Multi-mode lasing in stadium-shaped cavities which are rigorously known to be fully chaotic is investigated both theoretically and experimentally. By a nonlinear dynamical model, it is shown that there exist multi-attractors of limit cycles and chaos corresponding to the final lasing states for large microstadiums. We also show that the envelopes of the far field patterns of the actual microstadium laser diodes are excellently approximated by fully chaotic ray-dynamics.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)104-111
Number of pages8
JournalProgress of Theoretical Physics Supplement
Issue number166
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2007
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

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