Chaos via Period-Doubling Oscillations in an Exciton-Carrier-Photon System Driven by Optical Pumping |
| Nguyen Ba An International Center of Condensed Matter Physics, University of Brasilia, Caixa Postal 04667, 70919-900 Brasilia-DF, Brazil |
| Received: August 23, 1993 |
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| A detailed stability analysis is performed for a highly excited semiconductor modelled as an exciton-electron-hole-photon system driven externally by optical pumping. Chaotic self-pulsations are shown to occur on both the upper and lower branches of the bistable steady state curve of the system via a sequence of period-doubling oscillation process. Such a route to chaos is well known in laser physics and in other nonlinear systems but not in highly excited semiconductors yet. |
| DOI: 10.12693/APhysPolA.85.541 PACS numbers: 42.65.-k, 71.35.+z, 42.50.Lc |