Published May 2007 | Version v1
Journal article

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

  • 1. ATR Wave Engineering Laboratories, Dept. of Nonlinear Science, Seika, Kyoto (Japan)
  • 2. Ritsumeikan Univ., Dept. of Physics, Kusatsu, Shiga (Japan)

Description

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. (author)

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Progress of Theoretical Physics, Supplement
Journal Issue
no.166
Journal Page Range
p. 104-111
ISSN
0375-9687

Conference

Title
International conference on quantum mechanics and chaos
Acronym
QMC 2006
Dates
19-21 Sep 2006
Place
Osaka (Japan)

Optional Information

Notes
27 refs., 7 figs.