Passively Mode-Locked Semiconductor Lasers: Dynamics and Stochastic Properties in the Presence of Optical Feedback
Passively Mode-Locked Semiconductor Lasers: Dynamics and Stochastic Properties in the Presence of Optical Feedback By Lina Jaurigue
English | PDF | 2017 | 206 Pages | ISBN : 3319588737 | 13.6 MB
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.