Observing chaos for quantum-dot microlasers with external feedback

Nature Communications

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Albert, Ferdinand ^a   Hopfmann, Caspar ^a   Reitzenstein, Stephan ^a   Schneider, Christian ^a   Höfling, Sven ^a   Worschech, Lukas ^a   Kamp, Martin ^a   Kinzel, Wolfgang ^a   Forchel, Alfred ^a   Kanter, Ido ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUANTUM DOT;

ARTICLE; CHAOS THEORY; DIODE LASER; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FLAME PHOTOMETRY; LASER; LUMINESCENCE; PHOTON; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; SEMICONDUCTOR;

FEEDBACK; LASERS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; QUANTUM DOTS; SEMICONDUCTORS;

EID: 79959544392     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1370     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Michler, P. et al. A quantum dot single-photon turnstile device. Science 290, 2282-2285 (2000). (Pubitemid 32041564)
2. Salter, C. L. et al. An entangled-light-emitting diode. Nature 465, 594-597 (2010).
3. Townsend, P. D. Quantum cryptography on multiuser optical fibre networks. Nature 385, 47-49 (1997). (Pubitemid 27024547)
4. Strauf, S. et al. Self-tuned quantum dot gain in photonic crystal lasers. Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 127404 (2006).
5. Ulrich, S. M. et al. Photon statistics of semiconductor microcavity lasers. Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 043906 (2007).
6. Xie, Z., Götzinger, S., Fang, W., Cao, H. & Solomon, G. Influence of a single quantum dot state on the characteristics of a microdisk laser. Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 117401 (2007).
7. Gies, C., Wiersig, J. & Jahnke, F. Output characteristics of pulsed and continuous-wave-excited quantum-dot microcavity lasers. Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 067401 (2008).
8. Reitzenstein, S. et al. Single quantum dot controlled lasing effects in high-Q micropillar cavities. Opt. Express 16, 4848-4857 (2008). (Pubitemid 351483447)
9. Nomura, M., Kumagai, N., Iwamoto, S., Ota, Y. & Arakawa, Y. Laser oscillation in a strongly coupled single-quantum-dot-nanocavity system. Nature Phys. 6, 279-283 (2010).
10. Wiersig, J. et al. Direct observation of correlations between individual photon emission events of a microcavity laser. Nature 460, 245-249 (2009).
11. VanWiggeren, G. D. & Roy, R. Communication with chaotic lasers. Science 279, 1198-1200 (1998). (Pubitemid 28164369)
12. Argyris, A. et al. Chaos-based communications at high bit rates using commercial fibre-optic links. Nature 438, 343-346 (2005). (Pubitemid 41643948)
13. Liu, J. M., Chen, H. F. & Tang, S. Synchronized chaotic optical communications at high bit rates. IEEE J. Quant. Electron. 38, 1184-1196 (2002). (Pubitemid 35032641)
14. Larger, L. & Dudley, J. M. Nonlinear dynamics: optoelectronic chaos. Nature 465, 41-42 (2010).
15. Kanter, I., Kopelowitz, E. & Kinzel, W. Public channel cryptography: chaos synchronization and Hilberts tenth problem. Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 084102 (2008).
16. Kanter, I. et al. Synchronization of random bit generators based on coupled chaotic lasers and application to cryptography. Opt. Express 18, 18292-18302 (2010).
17. Uchida, A. et al. Fast physical random bit generation with chaotic semiconductor lasers. Nature Photon. 2, 728-732 (2008).
18. Murphy, T. E. & Roy, R. Chaotic lasers: the worlds fastest dice. Nature Photon. 2, 714-715 (2008).
19. Kanter, I., Aviad, Y., Reidler, I., Cohen, E. & Rosenbluh, M. An optical ultrafast random bit generator. Nature Photon. 4, 58-61 (2009).
20. Hirano, K. et al. Fast random bit generation with bandwidth-enhanced chaos in semiconductor lasers. Opt. Express 18, 5512-5524 (2010).
21. Böckler, C. et al. Electrically driven high-Q quantum dot-micropillar cavities. Appl. Phys. Lett. 92, 091107 (2008).
22. Reitzenstein, S. et al. AlAs/GaAs micropillar cavities with quality factors exceeding 150.000. Appl. Phys. Lett. 90, 251109-251103 (2007).
23. Björk, G. & Yamamoto, Y. Analysis of semiconductor microcavity lasers using rate equations. IEEE J. Quant. Electron. 27, 2386-2396 (1991).
24. Khaykovich, L., Galfsky, T., Shotan, Z. & Gross, N. TE-TM coupled mode dynamics in a semiconductor laser subject to feedback with variably rotated polarization. Opt. Commun. 282, 2059-2061 (2009).
25. Ates, S. et al. Coherence properties of high-beta elliptical semiconductor micropillar lasers. Appl. Phys. Lett. 90, 161111-161113 (2007).
26. Temnov, V. V. & Woggon, U. Photon statistics in the cooperative spontaneous emission. Opt. Express 17, 5774-5782 (2009).
27. Rosenbluh, M. et al. Spiking optical patterns and synchronization. Phys. Rev. E 76, 046207 (2007).
28. Ahlers, V., Parlitz, U. & Lauterborn, W. Hyperchaotic dynamics and synchronization of external-cavity semiconductor lasers. Phys. Rev. E 58, 7208 (1998).
29. Reidler, I., Aviad, Y., Rosenbluh, M. & Kanter, I. Ultrahigh-speed random number generation based on a chaotic semiconductor laser. Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 024102 (2009).
30. Lang, R. & Kobayashi, K. External optical feedback effects on semiconductor injection laser properties. IEEE J. Quant. Electron. 16, 347-355 (1980). (Pubitemid 10468454)
31. Whitfield, J. Complex systems: order out of chaos. Nature 436, 905-907 (2005). (Pubitemid 41191651)
32. Chaudhury, S., Smith, A., Anderson, B. E., Ghose, S. & Jessen, P. S. Quantum signatures of chaos in a kicked top. Nature 461, 768-771 (2009).