Download or read book Nonlinear Dynamics of Semiconductor Lasers with External Feedback written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report results from a contract tasking Heriot-Watt University as follows: The contractor will investigate low frequency fluctuations in semiconductor lasers and their synchronization properties.
Download or read book Unlocking Dynamical Diversity written by Deborah M. Kane and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Applications of semiconductor lasers with optical feedback systems are driving rapid developments in theoretical and experimental research. The very broad wavelength-gain-bandwidth of semiconductor lasers combined with frequency-filtered, strong optical feedback create the tunable, single frequency laser systems utilised in telecommunications, environmental sensing, measurement and control. Those with weak to moderate optical feedback lead to the chaotic semiconductor lasers of private communication. This resource illustrates the diversity of dynamic laser states and the technological applications thereof, presenting a timely synthesis of current findings, and providing the roadmap for exploiting their future potential. * Provides theory-based explanations underpinned by a vast range of experimental studies on optical feedback, including conventional, phase conjugate and frequency- filtered feedback in standard, commercial and single-stripe semiconductor lasers * Includes the classic Lang-Kobayashi equation model, through to more recent theory, with new developments in techniques for solving delay differential equations and bifurcation analysis * Explores developments in self-mixing interferometry to produce sub-nanometre sensitivity in path-length measurements * Reviews tunable single frequency semiconductor lasers and systems and their diverse range of applications in sensing and optical communications * Emphasises the importance of synchronised chaotic semiconductor lasers using optical feedback and private communications systems Unlocking Dynamical Diversity illustrates all theory using real world examples gleaned from international cutting-edge research. Such an approach appeals to industry professionals working in semiconductor lasers, laser physics and laser applications and is essential reading for researchers and postgraduates in these fields.
Download or read book Digital Communications Using Chaos and Nonlinear Dynamics written by Jia-Ming Liu and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-11-22 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a summary of the research conducted at UCLA, Stanford University, and UCSD over the last ?ve years in the area of nonlinear dyn- ics and chaos as applied to digital communications. At ?rst blush, the term “chaotic communications” seems like an oxymoron; how could something as precise and deterministic as digital communications be chaotic? But as this book will demonstrate, the application of chaos and nonlinear dynamicstocommunicationsprovidesmanypromisingnewdirectionsinareas of coding, nonlinear optical communications, and ultra-wideband commu- cations. The eleven chapters of the book summarize many of the promising new approaches that have been developed, and point the way to new research directions in this ?eld. Digital communications techniques have been continuously developed and re?ned for the past ?fty years to the point where today they form the heart of a multi-hundred billion dollar per year industry employing hundreds of thousands of people on a worldwide basis. There is a continuing need for transmission and reception of digital signals at higher and higher data rates. There are a variety of physical limits that place an upper limit on these data rates, and so the question naturally arises: are there alternative communi- tion techniques that can overcome some of these limitations? Most digital communications today is carried out using electronic devices that are essentially “linear,” and linear system theory has been used to c- tinually re?ne their performance. In many cases, inherently nonlinear devices are linearized in order to achieve a certain level of linear system performance.
Download or read book Semiconductor Laser Dynamics written by Daan Lenstra and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of 18 papers, two of which are reviews and seven are invited feature papers, that together form the Photonics Special Issue "Semiconductor Laser Dynamics: Fundamentals and Applications", published in 2020. This collection is edited by Daan Lenstra, an internationally recognized specialist in the field for 40 years.
Download or read book Nonlinear Dynamics of Semiconductor Lasers with Active Optical Feedback written by Stefan Bauer and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book All Optical Noninvasive Delayed Feedback Control of Semiconductor Lasers written by Sylvia Schikora and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-15 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stabilization of unstable states hidden in the dynamics of a system, in particular the control of chaos, received much attention in the last years. In this work, a well-known control method called delayed feedback control is applied for the first time entirely in the all-optical domain. A multisection semiconductor laser receives optical feedback from an external Fabry-Perot interferometer. The control signal is a phase-tunable superposition of the laser signal, and provokes the laser to operate in an otherwise unstable periodic state with a period equal to the time delay. The control is noninvasive, because the reflected signal tends to zero when the target state is reached.
Download or read book Nonlinear Dynamics of Semiconductor Lasers and Their Applications written by Ana Quirce and published by Mdpi AG. This book was released on 2022-03-23 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Semiconductor lasers are key components in many optical systems due to their advantages, including their small size, low cost, high efficiency, and low power consumption. It is well-known that semiconductor lasers under external perturbations, such as optical injection, optical feedback, or delayed coupling can exhibit a large variety of complex dynamical behaviors. Nowadays, cutting-edge engineering applications based on the complex dynamics of diode lasers are being conducted in areas, such as optical communications, optical signal processing, encoded communications, neuro-inspired ultra-fast optical computing devices, microwave signal generation, RADAR and LIDAR applications, biomedical imaging, and broadband spectroscopy. The prospects for these applications are even more exciting with the advent of photonic integrated circuits. This Special Issue focuses on theoretical and experimental advances in the nonlinear dynamics of semiconductor lasers subject to different types of external perturbations.
Download or read book Nonlinear Dynamics of Semiconductor Lasers with Optical Feedback written by Wing-Shun Lam and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Semiconductor Lasers written by Junji Ohtsubo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-05-03 with total page 679 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the fascinating recent advances made concerning the chaos, stability and instability of semiconductor lasers, and discusses their applications and future prospects in detail. It emphasizes the dynamics in semiconductor lasers by optical and electronic feedback, optical injection, and injection current modulation. Applications of semiconductor laser chaos, control and noise, and semiconductor lasers are also demonstrated. Semiconductor lasers with new structures, such as vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers and broad-area semiconductor lasers, are intriguing and promising devices. Current topics include fast physical number generation using chaotic semiconductor lasers for secure communication, development of chaos, quantum-dot semiconductor lasers and quantum-cascade semiconductor lasers, and vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers. This fourth edition has been significantly expanded to reflect the latest developments. The fundamental theory of laser chaos and the chaotic dynamics in semiconductor lasers are discussed, but also for example the method of self-mixing interferometry in quantum-cascade lasers, which is indispensable in practical applications. Further, this edition covers chaos synchronization between two lasers and the application to secure optical communications. Another new topic is the consistency and synchronization property of many coupled semiconductor lasers in connection with the analogy of the dynamics between synaptic neurons and chaotic semiconductor lasers, which are compatible nonlinear dynamic elements. In particular, zero-lag synchronization between distant neurons plays a crucial role for information processing in the brain. Lastly, the book presents an application of the consistency and synchronization property in chaotic semiconductor lasers, namely a type of neuro-inspired information processing referred to as reservoir computing.
Download or read book Nonlinear Optics and Nonlinear Dynamics in Semiconductor Lasers Subject to External Optical Injection written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Phase II SBIR effort investigates novel output characteristics of semiconductor lasers that can be induced by external optical injection. Specific interest is in characteristics relevant to the control of microwave and millimeter-wave electronics through enhanced modulation characteristics, characterization of vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) arrays, and analysis of chaotic dynamics that can be induced by optical injection. Under external optical injection, all semiconductor lasers tested, conventional edge emitting Fabry Perot laser diodes, VCSELs, and distributed feedback (DFB) laser diodes exhibited periodic oscillation of the optical power due to an instability in the coupling between the circulating optical field and the semiconductor gain medium. The instability could be locked to a microwave reference by simultaneously injecting a weak modulation current at the appropriate frequency, i.e., double locking to both microwave and optical references. Phase locked operation with sub-Hz linewidth and - 125 dBc/Hz residual phase noise was measured, values that compare favorably with other published reports A compact configuration using relatively inexpensive optical components was demonstrated. All laser types could be accurately modeled using a lumped element, coupled equation model for the circulating optical field and free carrier density. The model showed good agreement with a mapping of the types of nonlinear dynamics observed experimentally.
Download or read book Optical Feedback In Semiconductor Lasers written by Mohammad Taghi Fathi and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The current book is a review of author research about nonlinear dynamics in optically injected semiconductor laser. a) A new method is introduced to measure the thickness and refractive index of transparent thin films by Self-mixing interferometry which is an important application of weak optical feedback in semiconductor lasers. b) The regimes of perturbation in a laser diode subjected to delayed optical feedback (DOF) from an external reflector is numerically analyzed from short to long cavity and from weak to strong optical feedback.
Download or read book Experimental Investigation of Nonlinear Dynamics in Single Mode Semiconductor Laser Diodes with Phase Conjugate Feedback written by Gordon Thomas Hengst and published by . This book was released on 1997-08-01 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The semiconductor laser diode offers a unique system to investigate nonlinear dynamics when optical feedback is applied. Although there is extensive research of laser diodes with optical feedback from normal dielectric mirrors, very little has been done experimentally to analyze the effects of degenerate phase conjugate feedback from a BaTiO3 crystal. This research experimentally investigated the dynamics of a single-mode laser diode with weak phase conjugate feedback using both the self-pumped and double phase conjugate geometries. The experimental results validated a mathematical model which numerically evaluates the Lang-Kobayahsi coupled differential equations. The model simulated the nonlinear behavior of a laser diode subject to phase conjugate feedback and produced simulated RF and Fabry-Perot spectra of the laser Output. Model and experimental results showed frequency locking between the relaxation oscillation and external cavity frequencies and changes in the relaxation oscillation as a function of cavity length. Resonant behavior in the feedback strength necessary to undamp the relaxation oscillation frequency as a function of the cavity length was also captured experimentally an numerically. Validation of the model and experimental results presented in this research significantly contribute to the understanding of the nonlinear behavior of a laser diode subject to optical feedback.
Download or read book Dynamics of Quantum Dot Lasers written by Christian Otto and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis deals with the dynamics of state-of-the-art nanophotonic semiconductor structures, providing essential information on fundamental aspects of nonlinear dynamical systems on the one hand, and technological applications in modern telecommunication on the other. Three different complex laser structures are considered in detail: (i) a quantum-dot-based semiconductor laser under optical injection from a master laser, (ii) a quantum-dot laser with optical feedback from an external resonator, and (iii) a passively mode-locked quantum-well semiconductor laser with saturable absorber under optical feedback from an external resonator. Using a broad spectrum of methods, both numerical and analytical, this work achieves new fundamental insights into the interplay of microscopically based nonlinear laser dynamics and optical perturbations by delayed feedback and injection.
Download or read book Passively Mode Locked Semiconductor Lasers written by Lina Jaurigue and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-06-22 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis investigates the dynamics of passively mode-locked semiconductor lasers, with a focus on the influence of optical feedback on the noise characteristics. The results presented here are important for improving the performance of passively mode-locked semiconductor lasers and, at the same time, are relevant for understanding delay-systems in general. The semi-analytic results developed are applicable to a broad range of oscillatory systems with time-delayed feedback, making the thesis of relevance to various scientific communities. Passively mode-locked lasers can produce pulse trains and have applications in the contexts of optical clocking, microscopy and optical data communication, among others. Using a system of delay differential equations to model these devices, a combination of numerical and semi-analytic methods is developed and used to characterize this system.
Download or read book Dynamics and Synchronization Phenomena of Semiconductor Lasers with Delayed Optical Feedback written by Michael Peil and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this thesis, strategies to efficiently control nonlinear dynamical properties of semiconductor lasers with delayed optical feedback are successfully applied and accomplished. Based on this possibility, it is demonstrated how nonlinear dynamics can be harnessed for the realization of coherence controlled sources and encrypted communications based on chaotic carriers. Semiconductor lasers (SLs) with delayed optical feedback can exhibit intriguing dynamical phenomena. Therefore, these delay systems have become established experimental systems for studying fundamental nonlinear dynamics phenomena, comprising high-dimensional broadband chaotic emission dynamics. Nevertheless, with regard to the functionality of technical applications of SLs, feedback induced instabilities often represent a severe problem, so that much effort has been undertaken to suppress such instabilities. The opposite approach, asking whether the complex dynamical behavior of these systems can also be harnessed for applications remained barely treated so far. To give an answer to this question represented the gist of this thesis. With this aim, the emission properties of SLs with optical feedback have been intensively studied with the focus on regimes of chaotic emission. It is exemplified how the obtained knowledge about the nonlinear dynamical behavior of these systems can be utilized for tailoring the emission properties of SLs. This result represents a cornerstone of the presented work, since in fact it facilitates realization of new applications which are based on chaotic light. To substantiate this finding, a tailored SL light source is presented for which the coherence length can be tuned in a range between 8 m and 130 m. Such a light source can be implemented in modern ranging measurement technology, e.g., in chaotic LIDAR systems. As a second example, it has been studied whether it is possible to synchronize SL-systems that exhibit broadband, high-dimensional chaotic dynamics. The presented results give evidence that excellent synchronization can be achieved. Even more, it is verified that the revealed synchronization properties can be successfully utilized for realization of functional cryptographic communication systems. Hence, both examples highlight the potential of applied nonlinear dynamics for realization of novel practical applications for SLs.
Download or read book Nonlinear Dynamics of Semiconductor Lasers Driven by External Optical Fields written by Willem Allard van der Graaf and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nonlinear Dynamics and Stochastic Behaviour of Semiconductor Lasers with Optical Feedback written by J. Mørk and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
