Effects of noise on the turn-on dynamics of a modulated class-B laser in the generalized multistability domain

We have investigated the influence of intrinsic laser noise on recently proposed schemes for targeting laser dynamics to unstable periodic orbits by means of Q switching of modulated class-B lasers. Several interesting features of turn-on statistics in such a nonlinear regime have been found, including scaling of targeting peaks location with the strength of the spontaneous emission noise and universality of the transient time statistics, i.e., their essential independence of the strength of noise. The concept of the highest passage times has been introduced and their distribution functions double-peaked structure with the underlying symmetry properties has been revealed and explained. The noise has been found to cause much more frequent phase switching in comparison with the deterministic case with possible detrimental effects on the use of this particular scheme in chaos control techniques.