[OPTICAL REVIEW Vol. 6, No. 4 (1999) 359-364]
Dynamics of Semiconductor Lasers with Optical Feedback from Photorefractive Phase Conjugate Mirror
Atsushi MURAKAMI and Junji OHTSUBO
Faculty of Engineering, Shizuoka University, 3-5-1, Johoku, Hamamatsu, 432-8561 Japan
(Received January 29, 1999; Accepted April 13, 1999)
The dynamics of semiconductor lasers with photorefractive phase conjugate optical feedback are experimentally studied. Photorefractive fringes considered here are rather static compared with time fluctuations of laser output power. Therefore, it is expected that a semiconductor laser with photorefractive feedback shows similar dynamics to those with conventional optical feedback. We examine relaxation oscillation and external cavity modes of laser output power in the presence of photorefractive phase conjugate feedback. It is proved that the dynamics of photorefractive phase conjugate feedback are fundamentally the same as those of conventional optical feedback.
Key words : semiconductor laser, photorefractive optical feedback, instability, chaos