基于偏振测量的VCSEL激光器阈值行为研究

设计构建了垂直腔面发射激光器偏振测试系统,利用该测试系统研究了激光器不同偏振模式的阈值行为特点。激光器的输出光随着驱动电流的增大将会出现P偏振以及S偏振两种相互正交的偏振分量,并且两者具有不同的工作阈值;进一步依据测得的阈值点将激光器分为三个工作区域,通过对非偏振及偏振测试结果的比较分析得出:垂直腔面发射激光器的非偏振测量中观测到的工作阈值点体现的是P偏振分量的阈值点;激光器S偏振分量的阈值需要通过偏振测量才能明显观测到;P偏振与S偏振分量阈值电流之间的工作区域具有最好的线偏振度。本文的研究为垂直腔面发射激光器的未来研制测试工作和更好应用夯实了基础。     

长波长垂直腔面发射激光器开关及双稳特性

为了研究垂直腔面发射激光器偏振转换特性,基于自旋反转模型,数值研究了正交光注入下1550nm垂直腔面发射激光器频率诱导偏振开关及双稳特性。结果表明,在正交光注入下,连续改变注入光与激光器光场内x线性极化模的频率失谐可诱导产生两类偏振开关和偏振双稳现象,且注入光强与偏振电流的变化都显著影响双稳宽度和激光器的输出特性;合理选择操作条件,可实现对1550nm垂直腔面发射激光器频率诱导偏振开关及双稳的控制。这一结果对垂直腔面发射激光器在全光开关和全光存储等领域的应用具有参考价值。     

偏振选择互注入半导体激光器的混沌同步

研究了偏振选择互注入条件下半导体激光器的同步和混沌滤波效应。将单模互注入速率方程扩展为包含两个偏振态的理论模型,并选择X偏振态作为互注入形式,不仅为激光器产生混沌和实现同步提供了条件,还可以完全抑制Y偏振光,实现了纯偏振模式同步。通过频率失调的引入,保持了激光器主从地位的稳定。研究结果表明,主从激光器实现了时差等于注入延时的混沌同步,输出功率表现出高频振荡并伴随有对称性破坏现象。对主激光器进行调制时,同步系统表现出与单向注入相似的混沌滤波效应;对从激光器进行调制时,系统的混沌滤波效应并不明显。     

光反馈垂直腔面发射半导体激光器的混沌驱动同步

基于光反馈垂直腔面发射半导体激光器动力学模型,通过分析光子数密度随光反馈强度变化的分岔情况,确定了激光器处于混沌态时的参数区间。利用混沌信号驱动同步方案,实现了两个被驱动激光器的精确混沌同步,并通过对两个被驱动激光器相关系数的分析,确定了它们达到精确混沌同步的参数区间。研究了参数失配对同步的影响,结果表明该同步方案有很好的稳健性。     

多变量耦合实现双环掺铒光纤激光器混沌同步

根据双环掺铒光纤激光器的理论模型,提出多变量单向耦合法实现混沌同步,对主从系统模型进行数学推导,研究不同参数条件下双环掺铒光纤激光器的混沌同步,得到实现混沌同步的条件,并在Simulink平台下动态仿真。结果表明,衰减系数不同的两个双环掺铒光纤激光器,主激光器通过定向耦合器驱动从激光器,主从系统可以实现精确混沌同步,且随着反馈强度的增大,实现系统混沌同步的时间越短,反馈强度的取值范围由衰减系数和耦合系数确定;选取不同的系统初值,主从系统可实现混沌同步,系统初值对达到混沌同步时间的影响可忽略不计;在主从系统中引入随机高斯噪声,主从系统仍可实现较好的混沌同步。     

单向耦合半导体激光器之间的混沌同步研究

研究了单向耦合半导体激光器之间的混沌同步。通过计算两个单向耦合的半导体激光器模型的Lyapunov指数,确定了耦合强度的取值范围。进一步设计了耦合控制器,使响应系统的状态变量精确同步于驱动系统。仿真模拟结果表明,该方法可快速有效地实现半导体激光器的混沌同步。     

同相发射的垂直腔面激光器

由于桑迪亚国家实验室所作的研究,强烈耦合锁相列阵垂直腔面发射激光器已变成现实。这一发展为以不同衍射极限光束质量的高功率垂直腔面发射激光器为基础的发射器铺平了道路。利用反传导耦合,研究人员已使发射８６８ｎｍ波长的两个垂直腔面发射激光器锁相,让它们完全同相发射。反传导耦合要求连结发射元件的光学材料具有增大的折射率,以便光很易于在元件之间漏掉。与另一种可选方案（消逝波）不同,反传导耦合使每单位长度有很强耦合,并且最低级次的横模优先。所希望的同相运转通过两个垂直腔面发射激光器单元甚至隔开很多波长距离而实…     

信道串扰对多信道混沌通信系统的影响

为了研究多信道全光混沌通信系统中信道串扰对系统同步及解码性能的影响,构建了基于垂直腔面发射激光器的多信道混沌通信系统模型.通过利用描述其特性的数率方程模型,采用相似指数作为参考标准来评价同步性能,并进行了2.5Gbit/s混沌掩藏方式的编解码数值模拟.结果表明,相对注入强度越小,信道间隔越大,系统同步的性能越好;双信道系统的同步质量相比主从式单信道系统会有明显下降,而进一步增加信道数量,同步品质并不发生显著改变.在同步质量足够高时,信号可以得到较好的恢复.     

垂直腔面发射激光器在无线激光通信中的应用研究

在光纤通信中广泛应用的垂直腔面发射激光器,以其单模特性好、阈值电流低、调制速率高等特点备受人们青睐,而在无线激光通信中的应用鲜有报导。本文从垂直腔面发射激光器的结构特点出发,分析了它的技术优势及技术发展趋势,探讨了垂直腔面发射激光器可在无线激光通信中获得应用的原因。采用VCSEL垂直腔面发射激光器作为激光光源并与光纤通信中已经成熟的EDFA、波分复用等技术的结合,将提高无线激光通信系统的性能,降低系统成本。     

垂直腔面发射激光器同相发射

桑迪亚国家实验室首次演示了强耦合锁相垂直腔面发射激光器列阵。该发明为具有衍射极限光束的高功率垂直腔面发射激光器(VSEL)基发射机铺平了道路。用反引导耦合将两支868nm垂直腔面发射激光器锁相,使它们完全同相发射。反引导耦合要求连接发射单元的光学材料折射率增强,使光容易在元件间泄漏。可使用消逝波耦合,但反引导耦合较强(单位长度),最好选择最低阶横模。通过在偶数波长间隔上放置两支垂直腔面发射激光器单元达到所要求的同相运转。当这两个单元以奇数波长分开时,就180°异相发射,产生不太合意的两瓣形远场图。以后会将几十个垂直…     

GHz Bandwidth Message Transmission Using Chaotic Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers

Chaotic message encoding and decoding in unidirectionally coupled vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) with polarization-preserved and polarization-selected optical injection has been studied experimentally. A GHz message has been successfully encoded in the chaotic transmitter and decoded from the receiver with polarization-preserved optical injection. In contrast decoding using polarization-selected optical injection was achieved at only 330 MHz. It has also been demonstrated that GHz message extraction can be achieved using both normal and inverse chaos synchronization thus providing an opportunity for exploiting polarization properties of VCSELs for duplexed chaotic message transmission.     

Polarization-preserved and polarization-rotated synchronization of chaotic vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers

The synchronization process in a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) based master-slave configuration, where the master laser has been destabilised by optical feedback from an external mirror, has been investigated. The dynamics of both VCSEL polarization modes have been modeled and used to study the chaos synchronization mechanism in both polarization preserved, and polarization rotated unidirectionally coupled master and slave configurations. Two types of synchronization have been identified in the polarization rotated case, one of which may afford an opportunity to effect multiplexed message encoding using orthogonal laser modes.     

Optical Chaotic Communication Using Generalized and Complete Synchronization

We propose a secure optical communication system based on the principles of generalized and complete chaotic synchronization. A transmitter and a receiver both composed by two chaotic external-cavity semiconductor lasers are coupled in a master-slave configuration to provide generalized synchronization, while the master lasers in the transmitter and in the receiver are completely synchronized through the synchronization channel via an optical fiber. A message is added to the transmitter slave laser and sent to the receiver through the information channel to be compared with the output of the receiver slave laser. The system is robust to a small mismatch of the laser parameters or of the coupling between the master and slave lasers, unavoidable in a real system, and can even enable a good communication up to a 5 Gb/s transmission rate using the chaos masking encryption method, when the master laseres are coupled bidirectionally.      

The threshold of generalized synchronization of chaotic oscillators

The behavior of two unidirectionally coupled chaotic oscillators exhibited at the threshold of generalized chaotic synchronization is considered. The modified-system approach is applied to explain physical mechanisms of formation of this regime in the cases of large and small mismatches of interacting systems.     

Criteria for synchronization of coupled chaotic external-cavitysemiconductor lasers

We study the synchronization of two unidirectionally coupled single-mode external-cavity semiconductor lasers, that operate in a chaotic regime. A simple theory is developed to obtain synchronization conditions and to analyze the effects of the detuning between the two lasers. We find that numerical simulations are in good agreement with the theory     

ON/OFF phase shift keying for chaos-encrypted communication using external-cavity semiconductor lasers

Synchronization phenomena of two chaotically emitting semiconductor lasers subject to delayed optical feedback are investigated. The lasers are unidirectionally coupled via their optical fields. Our experimental and numerical studies demonstrate that the relative optical feedback phase is of decisive importance: a characteristic synchronization scenario evolves under variation of the relative optical-feedback phase mediating cyclically between chaos synchronization in conjunction with coherent fields, and uncorrelated states in conjunction with incoherent fields. As a key result, we propose, and numerically demonstrate, a novel ON/OFF phase shift keying method opening up new perspectives for applications in communication systems using chaotic carriers.     

Modeling of optical synchronization of chaotic external-cavityVCSELs

The performance of a master-slave configuration for effecting the synchronization of chaotic vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) is studied using numerical simulations. The dynamical evolution of optically coupled VCSELs is examined using a traveling wave model which is valid in the strong optical feedback regime. It is shown that the proposed configuration is capable of effecting synchronization in a robust manner. The opportunity for exploiting synchronized chaos in secure optical communication systems is indicated