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American Physical Society, Physical Review Letters, 9(101)
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.101.093903
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Topological insight into the non-Arrhenius mode hopping of semiconductor ring lasers
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Guy Verschaffelt,
A. Scire,
G. Mezosi,
M. Sorel,
Jan Danckaert
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Abstract
We investigate both theoretically and experimentally the stochastic switching between two counter-propagating lasing modes of a semiconductor ring laser. Experimentally, the residence time distribution cannot be described by a simple one parameter Arrhenius exponential law and reveals the presence of two different mode-hop scenarios with distinct time scales. In order to elucidate the origin of these two time scales, we propose a topological approach based on a two-dimensional dynamical system. ; Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures