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Study of Chaos Control of a Dual-Ring Erbium-Doped Fiber Laser Using Parameter Method

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Abstract

This paper aims to study single-parameter and dual-parameter chaos control of a dual-ring erbium-doped fiber laser. We present the control model to pressure chaotic behavior of the laser to a periodic state or multi-periodic states by introducing a periodic mutational signal to adjust the losses of dual ring. When the loss of single ring is shifted between two different levels, the laser behaviors can be deduced to two single-period states, while two rings can emit cyclic pulses. We find a control-locking regime and discuss its frequency characteristic of the laser. When another signal is taken to control to perform on the loss, the laser can be deduced to show a period-2 state, a period-3 state, period-4 state and other multi-periodic states. And we find dual-dynamic controlled regimes, in which, one ring of the laser can be produced to show a periodic state while another ring presents a period-3 state. We find also a dual-period regime or a period-4 regime. When both the losses of dual ring are adjusted by shifting between different levels, the laser can produce a period-4, a period-6 and other multi-periodic states. The result indicates that chaos control of a dual-ring erbium-doped fiber laser can be realized using the single-parameter and dual-parameter methods.

Keywords: laser; chaos; control

1 Introduction

Chaotic dynamic has the unique characteristic of being sensitive to its starting condition and external effects. Chaotic motion is random and its output signal is similar to white noise. It would be very difficult for people to forecast long-term chaotic behavior. Since chaos-control method of “OGY” was presented in the twentieth century [1], many chaos-control technique have been presented to control chaotic variety [2, 3]. Currently, chaotic lasers are being used in many fields and people pay attention to chaos control of lasers. People obtained chaos control of lasers to stabilize the laser at a periodic state by the current modulation and the optical feedback, and so on [3, 4]. However, we see little of reports about control of chaotic dual-ring erbium-doped fiber lasers. In the twentieth century, erbium-doped fiber is used as a novel laser source and optical amplifier in optical fiber communications and optical fiber sensors [5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12]. Chaotic lasers are used to secure communication, random signal generatorand radar [7, 8]. A dual-ring fiber laser arises chaotic output using optical mutual injection of the two ring lasers [7, 8, 13]. In this paper, novel chaos-control methods of single-parameter and dual-parameter methods are presented using a periodic mutational signal to adjust the loss. There are many fascinating physical phenomena, and other types of lasers are hard to see. The result is helpful to study the chaos control of lasers [14, 15].

2 Model

The physical model of dual-ring erbium-doped fiber laser can be described by coupling the two single-ring erbium-doped fiber lasers. After considering the control planshown in figure 1, the laser normalized field and the normalized ion number are described by the coupling rate equation as follows [3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10]:

(1)ddtEa=ka×[1μa×sa(2πfat)]×(Ea+η0Eb)+gaEaDa
(2)ddtEb=kb×[1μb×sb(2πfbt)×(Ebη0Ea)+gbEbDb
(3)ddtDa=[1+Ipa+|Ea|2}Da+Ipa1
(4)ddtDb=[1+Ipb+|Eb|2}Db+Ipb1

where subscripts a and b stand for the ring “a” and ring “b” of the laser, Ip indicates the laser pump. E indicates the laser normalized field. D indicates the normalized ion number, k indicates the loss coefficient, ƞ0 indicates the coupling coefficient of the coupler and g indicates the gain coefficient. The laser can generate chaotic optical pulses or some nonlinear dynamic behaviors when the dual-ring coupling level reaches a high value. In eqs.(1) and (2), the term –μa,b×sa,b(2πfa,bt) is introduced to realize chaos-control operation by a loss modulator shifting the loss of two rings. sa,b stands for a periodic mutational signal, μa,b is the shifting depth and fa,b is the shifting frequency of signal. This additional degree of freedom as a control term being induced to operate the loss will result in nonlinear effects, and these functions will affect laser behavior. We find that the laser output will be deduced to cyclic pulses or other multi-cycle pulses, while chaos control of dual-ring erbium-doped fiber laser will be able to be obtained effectively using mutational parameter method.

3 Results of single-parameter control of the ring b

In our numerical simulations, the laser parameters taken as normalized values [3, 4, 7, 8, 13] are as follows: Ipa=Ipb=4, ka=kb=1,000, ƞ0=0.2, ga=4,800, gb=10,500. When control–control operation does not carry out, Figure 2 gives nonlinear dynamic behavior of two rings of the laser, where Figure 2(a) shows chaotic attractor and Figure 2(b) shows dual-ring emitting optical fields. We find chaotic behavior being very sensitive to its starting condition and showing different trajectories when the initial conditions are taken as different values.

Figure 1: A schematic of chaos control, where Ipa and Ipb are the pump light, C0 is the coupler, wdm is the wavelength division multiplexer and Ea and Eb are the optical fields from ring “a” and ring “b”, respectively. LM is the loss modulator.
Figure 1:

A schematic of chaos control, where Ipa and Ipb are the pump light, C0 is the coupler, wdm is the wavelength division multiplexer and Ea and Eb are the optical fields from ring “a” and ring “b”, respectively. LM is the loss modulator.

Figure 2: Chaotic dynamics: (a) typical chaotic attractor, (b) dual-ring output.
Figure 2:

Chaotic dynamics: (a) typical chaotic attractor, (b) dual-ring output.

First, we discuss the results of single-parameter chaos control of laser when the loss of the ring b is shifted between two levels. Let the control parameter μb=0.4 and sb switches on the value 1 or the value zero and when the frequency is fb=11 kHz; chaos control is performed on the laser after 2 ms for all control processes. Figure 3 shows the laser motion in chaos-control processes, where chaotic laser is controlled to stabilize in a cycle-4 state after 5 ms. Figure 3(a) gives the laser becoming of a cycle-4 trajectory, Figure 3(b) shows dual-ring output variation along with some undamped relaxation oscillation from 2 ms to 4 ms and Figure 3(c) stands for two stable cycle-3 states shown in two rings. The above results indicate that we have succeeded to obtain controlling this chaotic dual-ring erbium-doped fiber laser.

Figure 3: The laser shows cycle-4 states: (a) cycle-4 trajectory, (b) dual-ring output and (c) two cycle-4 waveforms.
Figure 3:

The laser shows cycle-4 states: (a) cycle-4 trajectory, (b) dual-ring output and (c) two cycle-4 waveforms.

When the frequency is taken as fb=10 kHz, the laser can be deduced to cycle-6 states, while the dual ring emits cycle-6 states shown in Figure 4. Figure 4(a) shows the laser dynamics behavior with a cycle-6 trajectory and Figure 4(b) shows dual-ring output varying with cycle-6 pulses.

Figure 4: The laser becoming of cycle-6 states: (a) cycle-6 trajectory and (b) cycle-6 pulses from two rings.
Figure 4:

The laser becoming of cycle-6 states: (a) cycle-6 trajectory and (b) cycle-6 pulses from two rings.

When the frequency is reduced to fb=9 kHz, the laser can be controlled to stabilize in cycle-3 states, while the dual ring emits cycle-3 pules shown in Figures 5(a) and (b).

Figure 5: The dual ring at cycle-3 states: (a) cycle-3 trajectory and (b) two rings show cycle-3 behaviors.
Figure 5:

The dual ring at cycle-3 states: (a) cycle-3 trajectory and (b) two rings show cycle-3 behaviors.

We reduce the frequency to fb=7 kHz; this control performance results in cycle-8 states shown in the laser while the dual-ring can emit cycle-8 pules presented at Figures 6(a) and (b).

Figure 6: The dual-ring becoming of cycle-8 states: (a) cycle-8 trajectory and (b) two rings show cycle-8 behaviors.
Figure 6:

The dual-ring becoming of cycle-8 states: (a) cycle-8 trajectory and (b) two rings show cycle-8 behaviors.

When we add the frequency to fb=16 kHz, the control performance can result in that the laser can become of other cycle-6 states while the dual-ring emits cycle-6 pulses shown in Figure 7. Figure 7(a) shows the laser dynamics with a cycle-6 trajectory and Figure 7(b) shows dual-ring output varying with cycle-6 pulses. Here, coupling effect of two ring dominates laser behavior, leading to the same period-6 state.

Figure 7: The dual ring becoming of other cycle-6 states: (a) Other cycle-6 trajectory and (b) two-ring output cycle-6 waveforms.
Figure 7:

The dual ring becoming of other cycle-6 states: (a) Other cycle-6 trajectory and (b) two-ring output cycle-6 waveforms.

When the frequency is increased to fb=16.8 kHz, the control performance causes the laser to cycle-4 states while the dual ring shows cycle-4 pulses in Figures 8(a), (b) and (c).

When the frequency is increased to fb=17.5 MHz, laser motion can be brought tolock at stable cyclic states while the dual ring output emits cyclic pulses shown in Figure 9. Figure 9(a) presents the laser dynamics behavior becoming of a cyclic trajectory and Figure 4(b) shows a dual ring emitting a periodic wave varying with cyclic pulses at an oscillation frequency of 17.5 kHz. We find a control-locking region that shows periodic regional distribution from 17.5 kHz to 24 kHz. In this region, the laser realizes to stabilize at some cyclic states, while the two rings are locking at the shifting frequencies. These results indicate that we have succeeded to realize to control the chaotic dual-ring erbium-doped fiber laser.

Figure 8: The dual ring becoming of other cycle-4 states: (a) other cycle-4 trajectory, (b) cycle-4 waveforms and (c) zoomed Figure 4(b).
Figure 8:

The dual ring becoming of other cycle-4 states: (a) other cycle-4 trajectory, (b) cycle-4 waveforms and (c) zoomed Figure 4(b).

Figure 9: The dual-ring locking at cyclic states: (a) a cyclic trajectory and (b) dual-ring emitting cyclic pluses.
Figure 9:

The dual-ring locking at cyclic states: (a) a cyclic trajectory and (b) dual-ring emitting cyclic pluses.

When we increase the frequency to fb=26 kHz again, the control result is shown in Figure 10, where the laser becomes of cycle-2 states. When the frequency is increased to fb=27 kHz, the laser is deduced to cycle-3 states shown in Figure 11.

Figure 10: Cycle-2 trajectory.
Figure 10:

Cycle-2 trajectory.

Figure 11: Cycle-3 trajectory.
Figure 11:

Cycle-3 trajectory.

We find a dual-period region and a cycle-4 region. The dual-period region distributes between 35 kHz and 36 kHz and the period-4 region distributes between 40 kHz and 41 kHz. We find also another dual-period region that distributes from 44 kHz to 53 kHz.

When we perform on the laser using another signal with a high-frequency and a low-shifting depth taken as fb=65 kHz and μb=0.2, the two rings can be deduced to show two different states, where the ring “a” can produce cyclic pulses and the ring “b” can arise cycle-3 pulses shown in Figure 12. We find such chaos-controlled dual-dynamic region from 55 kHz to 70 kHz.

Figure 12: The dual-ring becomes of different states.
Figure 12:

The dual-ring becomes of different states.

When the control parameter is taken as μb=0.2 and fb=18 kHz, the two rings can raise two different states, where the ring “a” shows a cycle-3 behavior and the ring “b” shows a cycle-5 behavior shown in Figure 13. The gain can affect laser oscillation and the gain coefficient differences in the two rings. Here, the gains of two ring dominate laser behavior to some extent, so the laser ring “b” is being excited at a cycle-5 oscillation by the control signal while the laser ring “a” shows a cycle-3 oscillation.

Figure 13: Cycle-6 trajectory.
Figure 13:

Cycle-6 trajectory.

When we operate on the laser using other signals at a frequency fb=18 kHz and different shifting depths taken as the values μb between 0.1 and 0.008, the two rings of the laser can be deduced to lock at periodic states at a frequency of 18 kHz.

4 Results of dual-parameter control of the dual ring

We study the dual-parameter control and make chaos-control performance on the losses of the dual ring of the laser, in which the loss of the ring “a” is shifted by a shifting signal with the parameters being fa=20 kHz, μa=0.1 and sa between values 1 and 0 while the loss of the ring “b” is shifted by a shifting signal with the parameters being fb=18 kHz, μb=0.1 and sb between values 1 and 0. Figure 14 shows that the laser motion can be controlled to stabilize in cycle-6 states. The result can indicate that chaotic dual-ring erbium-doped fiber laser can be controlled.

Figure 14: The laser has cycle-6 trajectory.
Figure 14:

The laser has cycle-6 trajectory.

When the control parameters are taken as fa=15 kHz, μa=0.1, fb=18 kHz, μb=0.1 and sa,b is between values 1 and 0, the laser behavior can be deduced to show cycle-6 states shown in Figure 15.

Figure 15: The laser has cycle-6 trajectory.
Figure 15:

The laser has cycle-6 trajectory.

5 Conclusion

The single-parameter and dual-parameter chaos-control method of the dual-ring erbium-doped fiber laser are studied in this paper. The laser can be controlled to single-cycle states or some multiple-cycle states. Compared to the previous report [2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 13], now the laser is controlled by mutational excitation of square wave signal as control signal substituting sine signal, and dual-signal is used to obtain thereliable reazlization of chaos control of laser. Dual-parameter control is easier than single-parameter control to produce high-dimensional periodic state. Those improvements and innovations have been made to control this chaotic laser, so the controlled-locking region, dual-cycle region, other multi-cycle region, such as high-dimensional periodic states, and dual-dynamical behaviors are produced to be found. Some fantastic phase space orbits will arouse our interest in the study of the laser. We will study this chaos-control method in experiment and give a suggestion for researchers interested in chaos control to find these controlled phenomena in experiment. Reference literature [2, 5, 7, 9, 13] will provide some good references for us to control chaos experimentally. The result is very helpful for our study of chaos-control, dual-ring erbium-doped fiber laser and other lasers. Considering its application prospect in the field of control and laser, we feel that further chaos-control research in theory and experiment is needed to discover new physical phenomena, propose new control methods and promote the development of new laser chaos-control technology.

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Received: 2018-02-06
Accepted: 2018-08-01
Published Online: 2018-08-25
Published in Print: 2021-01-27

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