Characteristics of transients among periodic attractors controlled by high-frequency injection in a chaotic laser diode

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1374-1381

  Uchida, Atsushi ^a   Sato, Takahiro ^a   Ogawa, Takeshi ^a   Kannari, Fumihiko ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAOS THEORY; FEEDBACK; LASER RESONATORS; LASER THEORY; STATISTICAL METHODS; SWITCHING;

CHAOS CONTROL; HIGH FREQUENCY INJECTION TECHNIQUES; LASER CAVITY LENGTH; OPTICAL FEEDBACK; PERIODIC ATTRACTOR; TRANSIENT RESPONSE TIME;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0033341112     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.792544     Document Type: Article

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21. Atsushi Uchida was born in Saitama, Japan, on September 25, 1972. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Keio University, Yokohama, Japan, in 1995 and 1997, respectively. He is currently workng toward the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering at Keio University. His current research interests are control and synchronization of chaotic lasers and their applications, wavelength conversion in fibers, and optical nonlinear phenomena. Mr. Uchida is a member of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, the Optical Society of America, the Japan Society of Applied Physics, the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, and the Laser Society of Japan.
22. Takahiro Sato was born in Saitama, Japan, on June 11, 1974. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Keio University, Yokohama, Japan, in 1997 and 1999, respectively. In 1999, he joined Hitachi Ltd., Yokohama, Japan.
23. Takeshi Ogawa was born in Hiroshima, Japan, on June 21, 1975. He received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Keio University, Yokohama, Japan, in 1999. He is currently working toward the M.S. degree in electrical engineering at Keio University. Mr. Ogawa is a student member of the Japan Society of Applied Physics.
24. 2 lasers and their applications in material processing, femtosecond coherent light synthesis, and its applications, novel solid-state lasers, and optical nonlinear phenomena. Dr. Kannari is a member of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, the Optical Society of America, the Japan Society of Applied Physics, the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan, and the Laser Society of Japan.