EFFECTS OF NOISE ON THE TURN-ON DYNAMICS OF A MODULATED CLASS-B LASERIN THE GENERALIZED MULTISTABILITY DOMAIN

We have investigated the influence of intrinsic laser noise on recentl y proposed schemes for targeting laser dynamics to unstable periodic o rbits by means of Q switching of modulated class-B lasers. Several int eresting features of turn-on statistics in such a nonlinear regime hav e been found, including scaling of targeting peaks location with the s trength of tile spontaneous emission noise and universality of the tra nsient time statistics, i.e., their essential independence of the stre ngth of noise. The concept of the highest passage times has been intro duced and their distribution functions double-peaked structure with ti le underlying symmetry properties has been revealed and explained. The noise has been found to cause much more frequent phase switching in c omparison with the deterministic case with possible detrimental effect s on tile use of tills particular scheme in chaos control techniques.