"Semiconductor Lasers: Stability, Instability and Chaos" by Junji Ohtsubo

Describes progress in the field of chaos, stability, and instability of semiconductor lasers. This book discusses applications and their prospects in detail. It emphasizes the various dynamics induced in semiconductor lasers by optical and electronic feedback, optical injection, and injection current modulation.

This monograph describes recent fascinating progress being made in the field of chaos, stability and instability of semiconductor lasers. Applications and future prospects are discussed in detail. The book emphasises the various dynamics induced in semiconductor lasers by optical and electronic feedback, optical injection, and injection current modulation. Recent results of both theoretical and experimental investigations are presented. As applications of semiconductor laser chaos, control and noise, Semiconductor Lasers describes suppression and chaotic secure communications. For those who are interested in optics but not familiar with nonlinear systems, a brief introduction to chaos analysis is presented

Contents
Preface
1 Introduction
2 Chaos in Laser Systems
3 Semiconductor Lasers and Theory
4 Theory of Optical Feedback in Semiconductor Lasers
5 Dynamics of Semiconductor Lasers with Optical Feedback
6 Dynamics in Semiconductor Lasers with Optical Injection
7 Dynamics of Semiconductor Lasers with Optoelectronic Feedback and Modulation
8 Instability and Chaos in Various Laser Structures
9 Chaos Control and Applications
10 Stabilization of Semiconductor Lasers
11 Stability and Bistability in Feedback Interferometers, and Their Applications
12 Chaos Synchronization in Semiconductor Lasers
13 Chaotic Communications in Semiconductor Lasers
A. Appendix: Chaos
A.1 Nonlinear Chaotic Systems
A.2 Analysis and Characteristic Descriptions for Chaotic Data
A.3 Chaos Control
A.4 Chaos Synchronization
References
Index
Springer Series in optical sciences