Summary
International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and Its Applications
2015
Session Number:A4L-C
Session:
Number:A4L-C-2
Polarization Chaos from Free-Running Laser Diode: Peculiarities and Applications
Martin Virte, Marc Sciamanna, Hugo Thienpont, Krassimir Panajotov,
pp.261-264
Publication Date:2015/12/1
Online ISSN:2188-5079
Summary:
Recently, we reported that a free-running laser diode could generate a chaotic output without the need for external perturbation or forcing. Because of a competition between two polarization modes, we observed the generation of a polarization chaos dynamics with a symmetric double-scroll attractor. Here, we bring new experimental results and show that the system is in fact asymmetric due to a misalignment of the anisotropies in the laser cavity. In addition, we demonstrate that this new dynamics can be exploited in a chaos-based random bit generator and report exciting performances.