All-Optical Noninvasive Delayed Feedback Control of Semiconductor Lasers

Schikora, Sylvia

​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.

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Published by: Springer Spektrum

Publication Date: 2013-03-22

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9783658015398

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-01540-4

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 118