Summary

International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and Its Applications

2015

Session Number:B4L-C

Session:

Number:B4L-C-3

Initial-State Dependence of the Route to Chaos in a High-Dimensional Dynamical System: External-Cavity Semiconductor Lasers

Byungchil Kim,  Alexandre Locquet,  Daeyoung Choi,  David Citrin,  

pp.696-699

Publication Date:2015/12/1

Online ISSN:2188-5079

DOI:10.34385/proc.47.B4L-C-3

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Summary:
We observe experimentally for the first time, in a high-dimensional dynamical system experiencing generalized multistability, the sensitivity of the route to chaos to the selection of the initial state. This demonstration is performed using a semiconductor laser subjected to external optical feedback from an external mirror for which we developed an experimental initial-state selection method. We observe that, as the feedback level is increased, depending on the initial state, chaos develops from a different mode of the external-cavity.