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.