Characteristics of chaos synchronization in semiconductor lasers subject to polarization-rotated optical feedback

Author

Shibasaki, Nagisa ; Uchida, Atsushi ; Yoshimori, Shigeru ; Davis, Peter

Author_Institution

Miharu Commun. Inc., Kanagawa, Japan

Volume

42

Issue

3

fYear

2006

fDate

3/1/2006 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

342

Lastpage

350

Abstract

We numerically investigate the detailed characteristics of chaos synchronization in semiconductor lasers subject to polarization-rotated optical feedback. The emission of the dominant TE mode of a drive laser is rotated 90 deg and fed back to the laser with time delay. The polarization-rotated TE mode is also injected with time delay into the TM mode of a second laser. Two types of synchronization with different time-lags are found, as in the case for synchronization in semiconductor lasers with nonrotated optical feedback. However, a significant difference to the nonrotated optical feedback case is that neither of the two types of synchronization requires matching of optical carrier frequency between the two lasers.

Keywords

laser feedback; laser modes; optical chaos; semiconductor lasers; synchronisation; TE mode; chaos synchronization; optical carrier frequency; optical feedback; polarization rotation; semiconductor lasers; time delay; Chaos; Chaotic communication; Fiber lasers; Frequency synchronization; High speed optical techniques; Laser feedback; Laser modes; Optical feedback; Optical polarization; Semiconductor lasers; Chaos; optical feedback; polarization; semiconductor laser; synchronization;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9197

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JQE.2006.870226

Filename

1599547