Passively Mode-Locked Semiconductor Lasers: Dynamics and Stochastic Properties in the Presence of Optical Feedback

✍ Scribed by Lina Jaurigue (auth.)

Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Year: 2017
Tongue: English
Leaves: 206
Series: Springer Theses
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This thesis investigates the dynamics of passively mode-locked semiconductor lasers, with a focus on the influence of optical feedback on the noise characteristics. The results presented here are important for improving the performance of passively mode-locked semiconductor lasers and, at the same time, are relevant for understanding delay-systems in general. The semi-analytic results developed are applicable to a broad range of oscillatory systems with time-delayed feedback, making the thesis of relevance to various scientific communities. Passively mode-locked lasers can produce pulse trains and have applications in the contexts of optical clocking, microscopy and optical data communication, among others. Using a system of delay differential equations to model these devices, a combination of numerical and semi-analytic methods is developed and used to characterize this system.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction....Pages 1-13
Mode-Locked Laser Model....Pages 15-31
Mode-Locked Laser Dynamics....Pages 33-118
Timing Jitter of the Mode-Locked Laser....Pages 119-159
Noise-Induced Modulations ....Pages 161-186
Summary and Outlook....Pages 187-189
Back Matter....Pages 191-196

✦ Subjects

Physics, general

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