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    Dynamical regimes in a monolithic passively mode-locked quantum dot laser
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2010) Vladimirov, Andrei; Bandelow, Uwe; Fiol, Gerrit; Arsenijevi´c, Dejan; Kleinert, Moritz; Bimberg, Dieter; Pimenov, Alexander; Rachinskii, Dmitrii
    Operation regimes of a two section monolithic quantum dot (QD) mode-locked laser are studied experimentally and theoretically, using a model that takes into account carrier exchange between QD ground state and 2D reservoir of a QD-in-a-well structure, and experimentally. It is shown analytically and numerically that, when the absorber section is long enough, the laser exhibits bistability between laser off state and different mode-locking regimes. The Q-switching instability leading to slow modulation of the mode-locked pulse peak intensity is completely eliminated in this case. When, on the contrary, the absorber length is rather short, in addition to usual Q-switched mode-locking, pure Q-switching regimes are predicted theoretically and observed experimentally.
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    Delayed feedback control of the self-induced motion of localized structures of light
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2014) Vladimirov, Andrei G.; Pimenov, Alexander; Gurevich, Svetlana V.; Panajotov, Krassimir; Averlant, Eugene; Tlidi, Mustapha
    We investigate a control of the motion of localized structures of light by means of delay feedback in the transverse section of a broad area nonlinear optical system. The delayed feedback is found to induce a spontaneous motion of a solitary localized structure that is stationary and stable in the absence of feedback. We focus our analysis on an experimentally relevant system namely the Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser (VCSEL). In the absence of the delay feedback we present experimental evidence of stationary localized structures in a 80 m aperture VCSEL. The spontaneous formation of localized structures takes place above the lasing threshold and under optical injection. Then, we consider the effect of the time-delayed optical feedback and investigate analytically the role of the phase of the feedback and the carrier lifetime on the self-mobility properties of the localized structures. We show that these two parameters affect strongly the space time dynamics of two-dimensional localized structures. We derive an analytical formula for the threshold associated with drift instability of localized structures and a normal form equation describing the slow time evolution of the speed of the moving structure.
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    Bifurcations in a model of monolithic passively mode-locked semiconductior laser
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2008) Vladimirov, Andrei; Pimenov, Alexander; Rachinskii, Dmitrii
    Bifurcation mechanisms of the development and break up of different operation regimes in a passively mode-locked monolithic semiconductor laser are studied by solving numerically partial differential equations for amplitudes of two counterpropagating waves and carrier densities in gain and absorber sections. It is shown that harmonic mode-locking regime with two pulses in the cavity can exhibit a period-doubling bifurcation leading to different amplitudes and separations of the pulses. The effect of linewidth enhancement factors in gain and absorber sections on the laser dynamics is discussed.