Published 2004 | Version v1
Journal article

Critical slowing down at a bifurcation

Description

Critical slowing down near a bifurcation or limit point leads to a dynamical hysteresis that cannot be avoided by sweeping a control parameter slowly through the critical point. This paper analytically illustrates, with the help of a simple model, the bifurcation shift. We describe an inexpensive experiment using a semiconductor laser where this phenomenon occurs near the threshold of a semiconductor laser

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11 pages

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URL
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00014998
URN
urn:oai:HAL:hal-00014998v1