Optically injected quantum dot lasers and its complex dynamics
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Tahani Adil Kareem
Abstract
Lasers are paradigmatic examples of nonlinear systems and have played a crucial role in developing nonlinear dynamics into an interdisciplinary topic. Indeed, a freely operating laser represents a nontrivial system, but the phenomena that occur are much more interesting when the laser is exposed to external factors such as optical feedback (OFB) and optical injection (OI). This paper deals with the analysis of the dynamic behavior of a quantum dot semiconductor laser (QDSL) model under the influence of optical injection from another laser. The proposed model was studied numerically with the help of MATLAB. A QDSL system with optical injection was proposed and studied numerically. The quantum dot (QD) laser was used, which is a quantum semiconductor laser and has strong stability without external perturbation. When it is subjected to feedback, it has a critical effect on the follower laser and changes its stable behavior before injection to a set of nonlinear dynamics. The effect of both optical feedback strength and the delay time on the performance and behavior of the bifurcation patterns in the follower laser output was studied, taking into account changing the bifurcation parameters, the injection force k, the slave laser frequency, and the slave laser delay time. The behavior of the slave was studied each time and compared with the behavior of the master. We observed the chaotic paths (essentially stable and continuous pulsating oscillations evolving into periodic and semi-periodic oscillations and then chaotic ones). The time series corresponding to the bifurcation diagrams and the probability of the time interval between spikes and attractors were studied.
Acknowledgments
This work is supported by the Nassiriya Nanotechnology Research Laboratory (NNRL), Science College, University of Thi Qar, Iraq.
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Research ethics: The local Institutional Review Board deemed the study exempt from review.
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Author contributions: The authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this manuscript and approved its submission.
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Competing interests: The authors state no conflict of interest.
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Research funding: None declared.
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Data availability: Not applicable.
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