title: Two regimes of synchronization in unidirectionally coupled semiconductor lasers.
abstract: We analyze unidirectionally coupled semiconductor lasers in the feedback/injection scheme to determine their synchronization performance. As the mismatch between the two lasers increases, there is a transition from complete synchronization for identical lasers to time lag synchronization which is only partial. This corresponds to a continuous change of the global minimum that becomes a relative minimum of the synchronization error function and vice versa.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Science, 46 Ulyanov Street, 603600 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.
authors.forename: I V
authors.initials: IV
authors.lastname: Koryukin
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Mandel