DYNAMICS OF MULTISECTION SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS
We investigate the longitudinal dynamics of multisection semiconductor lasers based on a model, where a hyperbolic system of partial differential equations is nonlinearly coupled with a system of ordinary differential equations. We present analytic results for that system: global existence and uniqueness of the initial‐boundary value problem, and existence of attracting invariant manifolds of low dimension. The flow on these manifolds is approximately described by the so‐called mode approximations which are systems of ordinary differential equations. Finally, we present a detailed numerical bifurcation analysis of the two-mode approximation system and compare it with the simulated dynamics of the full PDE model.