Routes to chaos of a semiconductor laser subjected to external optical feedback: a review

A Locquet - Photonics, 2020 - mdpi.com
This paper reviews experimental investigations of the route to chaos of a semiconductor
laser subjected to optical feedback from a distant reflector. When the laser is biased close to …

Semiconductor laser-based multi-channel wideband chaos generation using optoelectronic hybrid feedback and parallel filtering

A Zhao, N Jiang, Y Zhang, J Peng, S Liu… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose and experimentally demonstrate a novel multi-channel chaos generation
scheme, which can simultaneously produce multiple chaotic signals with wideband …

Optically injected nanolasers for time-delay signature suppression and communications

P Jiang, P Zhou, N Li, P Mu, X Li - Optics Express, 2020 - opg.optica.org
A large number of studies have been carried out to understand the nonlinear dynamics of
nanolasers, yet there is a lack of comprehensive consideration on the optimization of chaotic …

Phased-array assisted time-delay signature suppression in the optical chaos generated by an external-cavity semiconductor laser

P Zhou, Q Fang, N Li - Optics Letters, 2020 - opg.optica.org
An external-cavity semiconductor laser (ECSL) outputs high-dimensional chaos, which has
potential for various applications, but the unwanted time-delay signature (TDS) might …

Stable-unstable switching dynamics in semiconductor lasers with external cavities

JX Dong, J Ruan, L Zhang, JP Zhuang, SC Chan - Physical Review A, 2021 - APS
Optical feedback in a semiconductor laser was recently used for photonic microwave square-
wave generation by invoking quasiperiodicity for repeated switching between a stable stage …

Detection dependencies of statistical properties for semiconductor laser chaos

XZ Li, SC Chan - IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The statistical properties of chaotic signals generated from semiconductor lasers are
important in different applications such as secure communications and random bit …

Intermittent dynamical state switching in discrete-mode semiconductor lasers subject to optical feedback

Z Zhong, D Chang, W **, MW Lee, A Wang… - Photonics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Intermittent dynamics switching on the route to chaos in a discrete-mode laser with long time-
delayed feedback is experimentally and numerically studied by analyzing the time series …

Phase stability diagram, self-similar structures, and multistability in a free-running VCSEL with a small misalignment between the phase and amplitude anisotropies

S Gu, P Zhou, P Mu, G Guo, X Liu, N Li - Optics Express, 2023 - opg.optica.org
We report on the global dynamics of a free-running vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser
(VCSEL) with misalignment between the linear phase and amplitude anisotropies due to the …

Intermittent microwave bursts of a semiconductor laser with an ultra-long loop for generating timing-based random bits

J Ruan, L Zhang, SC Chan - Optics Letters, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Chaotic dynamics of semiconductor lasers under optical feedback are useful for random bit
generation (RBG). By exploring on an ultra-long feedback loop, a single-mode laser in a …

Nanometric sensing with laser feedback interferometry

D Choi, MJ Wishon, EA Viktorov, DS Citrin, A Locquet - Optics letters, 2019 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate a nanometric sensor based on feedback interferometry in a distributed
feedback (DFB) laser by using a measurement of either the optical frequency or laser …