Chaotic dynamics and synchronization in microchip solid-state lasers with optoelectronic feedback

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Atsushi Uchida, Keisuke Mizumura, and Shigeru Yoshimori
Department of Electronics and Computer Systems, Takushoku University, 815-1 Tatemachi, Hachioji, Tokyo 193-0985, Japan

Received 13 July 2006; published 22 December 2006

Weexperimentally observe the dynamics of a two-mode Nd:YVO₄ microchip solid-statelaser with optoelectronic feedback. The total laser output is detectedand fed back to the injection current of the laserdiode for pumping. Chaotic oscillations are observed in the microchiplaser with optoelectronic self-feedback. We also observe the dynamics oftwo microchip lasers coupled mutually with optoelectronic link. The outputof one laser is detected by a photodiode and theelectronic signal converted from the laser output is sent tothe pumping of the other laser. Chaotic fluctuation of thelaser output is observed when the relaxation oscillation frequency isclose to each other between the two microchip lasers. Synchronizationof periodic wave form is also obtained when the microchiplasers have a single-longitudinal mode.

URL:	http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.74.066206
DOI:	10.1103/PhysRevE.74.066206
PACS:	05.45.Xt; 05.45.-a; 42.65.Sf 05.45.Xt Synchronization; coupled oscillators (nonlinear dynamical systems) 05.45.-a Nonlinear dynamics and nonlinear dynamical systems 42.65.Sf Dynamics of nonlinear optical systems including optical instabilities, optical chaos and complexity, and optical spatio–temporal dynamics YEAR: 2006
KEYWORDS:	neodymium, yttrium compounds, synchronisation, microchip lasers, fluctuations, oscillations, optical pumping, optical chaos, nonlinear optics, laser feedback, laser modes

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