Chaotic behavior of cavity solitons induced by time delay feedback

Opt Lett. 2014 Aug 15;39(16):4739-42. doi: 10.1364/OL.39.004739.

Abstract

We investigate spatiotemporal dynamics of cavity solitons in a broad area vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser with saturable absorption subject to time-delayed optical feedback. We show that the inclusion of feedback leads to a period doubling route to chaos of spatially localized light structures.