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

By Lina Jaurigue (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Year
2017
ISBN
978-3-319-58873-5, 978-3-319-58874-2
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-58874-2
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
14 MB (14270417 bytes)
Series
Springer Theses
Edition
1
Pages
XV, 196\206
Time added
2017-06-25 01:09:09
generalPhysics

Description

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.

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