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Proceedings of the 2012 International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications

2012

Session Number:C3L-D

Session:

Number:747

Dynamics and Synchronization Phenomena in Delay-Coupled Laser Systems

Ingo Fischer,  Xavier Porte,  Konstantin Hicke,  Miguel C. Soriano,  Daniel Brunner,  Claudio Mirasso,  

pp.747-750

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Online ISSN:2188-5079

DOI:10.15248/proc.1.747

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Semiconductor lasers are known to be very sensitive to external feedback, as well as to input from other lasers. This sensitivity, due to the nonlinear interaction of lasing field and semiconductor medium and the unavoidable delays in feedback and coupling, often results in emerging complex behavior. At the same time these nonlinear interactions lead to synchronization phenomena. For a long time such behavior has been considered undesired and difficult to treat experimentally and theoretically. Recently, tools to treat these systems have been developed, coupled lasers are serving as test-bed systems for delay-coupled networks and suggestions for applications have been proposed. In this presentation we provide examples of the advances and discuss the perspectives of such systems.

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