Predictability of extreme intensity pulses in optically injected semiconductor lasers

Álvarez, Núria Martínez; Masoller, Cristina

doi:10.1140/epjst/e2016-60391-4

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“…In semiconductor lasers, the first experimental demonstration of giant pulses was released in 2011 [105] and the rare occurrence of these high-amplitude pulses was confirmed by simulations based on a simple noise-free rate equation model compatible with a deterministic non-linear process. Most of the experimental and numerical works studying giant pulses in semiconductor lasers focus on an injection scheme [106][107][108]. VCSELs and laser diodes are the most common devices in these experiments because they are renowned for their sensitivity to external perturbations.…”

Section: Giant Pulses In Opticsmentioning

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A review of recent results of mid-infrared quantum cascade photonic devices operating under external optical control

Spitz¹,

Grillot²

2022

J. Phys. Photonics

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The purpose of this article is to gather recent findings about the non-linear dynamics of distributed feedback quantum cascade lasers, with a view on practical applications in a near future. As opposed to other semiconductor lasers, usually emitting in the visible or the near-infrared region, quantum cascade laser technology takes advantage of intersubband transitions and quantum engineering to emit in the mid-infrared and far-infrared domain. This peculiarity and its physical consequences were long considered as a detrimental characteristic to generate non-linear dynamics under external optical control. However, we show that a wide diversity of phenomena, from high-dimensional chaos to giant pulses can be observed when the quantum cascade laser is under external optical feedback or under optical injection and with a continuous current bias. Most of these phenomena have already been observed in other semiconductor lasers under optical feedback or under optical injection, which allows us comparing quantum cascade lasers with their interband counterparts.

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Section: Giant Pulses In Opticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A review of recent results of mid-infrared quantum cascade photonic devices operating under external optical control

Spitz¹,

Grillot²

2022

J. Phys. Photonics

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“…Actually, it has been previously shown that hierarchies and probabilities of the ordinal patterns offer a better characterization of the dynamical regimes of some complex systems, identifying transitions and behaviors that are not detected by more traditional statistical tools [31][32][33][34]. Ordinal patterns analysis can also be helpful to forecast extreme events in complex dynamics such as those obtained from an optically injected semiconductor laser [35], a semiconductor laser with optical feedback in the low frequency fluctuations regime [36], and a Raman fiber laser in the chaotic regime [37]. Besides, it is worth highlighting that the predictive capability achieved with ordinal patterns can go beyond the one reached by more conventional tools as it has been very recently shown for the complex dynamics of the paradigmatic Duffing oscillator [30].…”

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Time-Delay Identification Using Multiscale Ordinal Quantifiers

Soriano

Zunino

2021

Entropy

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Time-delayed interactions naturally appear in a multitude of real-world systems due to the finite propagation speed of physical quantities. Often, the time scales of the interactions are unknown to an external observer and need to be inferred from time series of observed data. We explore, in this work, the properties of several ordinal-based quantifiers for the identification of time-delays from time series. To that end, we generate artificial time series of stochastic and deterministic time-delay models. We find that the presence of a nonlinearity in the generating model has consequences for the distribution of ordinal patterns and, consequently, on the delay-identification qualities of the quantifiers. Here, we put forward a novel ordinal-based quantifier that is particularly sensitive to nonlinearities in the generating model and compare it with previously-defined quantifiers. We conclude from our analysis on artificially generated data that the proper identification of the presence of a time-delay and its precise value from time series benefits from the complementary use of ordinal-based quantifiers and the standard autocorrelation function. We further validate these tools with a practical example on real-world data originating from the North Atlantic Oscillation weather phenomenon.

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“…Most of the experiments and numerical works studying extreme events in semiconductor lasers focus on an optical injection scheme. 18,[34][35][36][37][38][39] VCSELs and laser diodes are the most common devices in these experiments because they are renowned for their sensitivity to perturbations leading to nonlinear phenomena. A very limited number of papers deal with the study of extreme events in the case of OF, 16,40,41 and, among these papers, conventional OF is sometimes replaced by phase-conjugate feedback 15,42 or filtered OF.…”

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Extreme events in quantum cascade lasers

Spitz

Herdt

et al. 2020

Adv. Photon.

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We demonstrate experimentally that mid-infrared quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) operating under external optical feedback exhibit extreme pulses. These events can be triggered by adding small amplitude periodic modulation, with the highest success rate for the case of a pulse-up excitation. These findings broaden the potential applications for QCLs, which have already been proven to be a semiconductor laser of interest for spectroscopic applications and countermeasure systems. The ability to trigger extreme events paves the way for optical neuron-like systems where information propagates as a result of high intensity bursts.

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Predictability of extreme intensity pulses in optically injected semiconductor lasers

Cited by 24 publications

References 31 publications

A review of recent results of mid-infrared quantum cascade photonic devices operating under external optical control

A review of recent results of mid-infrared quantum cascade photonic devices operating under external optical control

Time-Delay Identification Using Multiscale Ordinal Quantifiers

Extreme events in quantum cascade lasers

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