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Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 044101 (2007) [4 pages]

New Role for Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos in Integrated Semiconductor Laser Technology

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M. Yousefi, Y. Barbarin, S. Beri, E. A. J. M. Bente, M. K. Smit, R. Nötzel, and D. Lenstra*
COBRA Research Institute, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Received 1 August 2006; published 23 January 2007

Using an integrated colliding-pulse mode-locked semiconductor laser, we demonstrate the existence of nonlinear dynamics and chaos in photonic integrated circuits (PICs) by demonstrating a period-doubling transition into chaos. Unlike their stand-alone counterparts, the dynamics of PICs are more stable over the lifetime of the system, reproducible from batch to batch and on faster time scales due to the small sizes of PICs.

© 2007 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.044101
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.044101
PACS:
05.45.Tp, 42.55.Px, 42.65.Sf

*Also at LaserCentre, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Electronic address: m.yousefi@tue.nl

 
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