Acta Optica Sinica, Volume. 43, Issue 3, 0314002(2023)
Chaotic Characteristics of Semiconductor Lasers with Dual-Path Chaotic Optical Injection and Phase-Modulated Optical Feedback
Results and Discussions Regarding the SL-EUDOI-PMOF proposed in this paper, the external optical feedback cavity for the slave laser contains a phase modulator driven by pseudo-random signals, and this would conceal the time-delay eigenpeaks and the TDS generated by the time-delay information of the injected laser and the feedback laser. Thus, the TDS is effectively suppressed. The numerical results show that the TDS of the chaotic laser output from the system is effectively suppressed by optimizing parameter values in the selected parameter value ranges, namely, the time-delay eigenvalue
As class-B lasers, distributed feedback semiconductor lasers (DFB-SLs) can output chaotic laser under external disturbances, such as external optical injection and optoelectronic feedback, and the bandwidth is up to GHz. Therefore, DFB-SLs are widely applied in many fields, such as secure communication and physical entropy sources for generating random physical numbers. However, the chaotic laser output from DFB-SLs has weak periodicity and time-delay signature (TDS) due to optical feedback and optical injection. This would reduce the quality of the random numbers generated with chaotic laser sources and restrict the applications of chaotic laser. In addition, the bandwidth (BW) of the chaotic laser determines the transmission rate of secure communication. For the above reasons, the TDS and BW are two important parameters that affect chaotic laser's applications and are often used to characterize the chaotic characteristics of chaotic laser. This paper presents a semiconductor laser system with external unidirectional dual-path optical injection and phase-modulated optical feedback (SL-EUDOI-PMOF) and investigates its effectiveness in suppressing the TDS and broadening the BW of chaotic laser. The results of this paper are significant for achieving information confidentiality and high-speed transmission in chaotic laser-based secure communication.
This paper presents a scheme of semiconductor lasers. Specifically, a DFB-SL with an external-cavity optical feedback is used as the master laser, while a DFB-SL with the PMOF is taken as the slave laser. Subsequently, the chaotic laser output from the master laser is injected into the slave laser through two paths. The SL-EUDOI-PMOF is thereby obtained. Then, the influences of parameters, including the external optical injection coefficients and the feedback coefficients, on the TDS of the chaotic laser output from the SL-EUDOI-PMOF are numerically investigated. The time-delay eigenvalue
This paper proposes the SL-EUDOI-PMOF system for suppressing the TDS and broadening the BW of chaotic laser. For this purpose, the influences of the system's parameters on the TDS are numerically investigated, and the results are physically analyzed. The results show that in the selected parameter value ranges, the time-delay eigenvalue
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Shuang Pang, Yuling Feng, Ping Yu. Chaotic Characteristics of Semiconductor Lasers with Dual-Path Chaotic Optical Injection and Phase-Modulated Optical Feedback[J]. Acta Optica Sinica, 2023, 43(3): 0314002
Category: Lasers and Laser Optics
Received: Jun. 27, 2022
Accepted: Aug. 12, 2022
Published Online: Feb. 13, 2023
The Author Email: Feng Yuling (FYLCUST@163.com)