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    Timing jitter of passively mode-locked semiconductor lasers subject to optical feedback : a semi-analytic approach
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2015) Jaurigue, Lina; Pimenov, Alexander; Rachinskii, Dmitrii; Schöll, Eckehard; Lüdge, Kathy; Vladimirov, Andrei G.
    We propose a semi-analytical method of calculating the timing fluctuations in modelocked semiconductor lasers and apply it to study the effect of delayed coherent optical feedback on pulse timing jitter in these lasers. The proposed method greatly reduces computation times and therefore allows for the investigation of the dependence of timing fluctuations over greater parameter domains. We show that resonant feedback leads to a reduction in the timing jitter and that a frequency-pulling region forms about the main resonances, within which a timing jitter reduction is observed. The width of these requency pulling regions increases linearly with short feedback delay times. We derive an analytic expression for the timing jitter, which predicts a monotonic decrease in the timing jitter for resonant feedback of increasing delay lengths, when timing jitter effects are fully separated from amplitude jitter effects. For long feedback cavities the decrease in timing jitter scales approximately as 1/tau with the increase of the feedback delay time tau.
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    Optimal design of the tweezer control for chimera states
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2017) Omelchenko, Iryna; Omelchenko, Oleh E.; Zakharova, Anna; Schöll, Eckehard
    Chimera states are complex spatio-temporal patterns, which consist of coexisting domains of spatially coherent and incoherent dynamics in systems of coupled oscillators. In small networks, chimera states usually exhibit short lifetimes and erratic drifting of the spatial position of the incoherent domain. A tweezer feedback control scheme can stabilize and fix the position of chimera states. We analyse the action of the tweezer control in small nonlocally coupled networks of Van der Pol and FitzHugh-Nagumo oscillators, and determine the ranges of optimal control parameters. We demonstrate that the tweezer control scheme allows for stabilization of chimera states with different shapes, and can be used as an instrument for controlling the coherent domains size, as well as the maximum average frequency difference of the oscillators.
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    A tweezer for chimeras in small networks
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2015) Omelchenko, Iryna; Omelchenko, Oleh E.; Zakharova, Anna; Wolfrum, Matthias; Schöll, Eckehard
    We propose a control scheme which can stabilize and fix the position of chimera states in small networks. Chimeras consist of coexisting domains of spatially coherent and incoherent dynamics in systems of nonlocally coupled identical oscillators. Chimera states are generally difficult to observe in small networks due to their short lifetime and erratic drifting of the spatial position of the incoherent domain. The control scheme, like a tweezer, might be useful in experiments, where usually only small networks can be realized.
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    Control of unstable steady states by strongly delayed feedback
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2006) Yanchuk, Serhiy; Wolfrum, Matthias; Hövel, Philipp; Schöll, Eckehard
    We present an asymptotic analysis of time-delayed feedback control of steady states for large delay time. By scaling arguments, and a detailed comparison with exact solutions, we establish the parameter ranges for successful stabilization of an unstable fixed point of focus type. Insight into the control mechanism is gained by analysing the eigenvalue spectrum, which consists of a pseudo-continuous spectrum and up to two strongly unstable eigenvalues. Although the standard control scheme generally fails for large delay, we find that if the uncontrolled system is sufficiently close to its instability threshold, control does work even for relatively large delay times.
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    Delay-induced patterns in a two-dimensional lattice of coupled oscillators
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2015) Kantner, Markus; Schöll, Eckehard; Yanchuk, Serhiy
    We show how a variety of stable spatio-temporal periodic patterns can be created in 2D-lattices of coupled oscillators with non-homogeneous coupling delays. The results are illustrated using the FitzHugh-Nagumo coupled neurons as well as coupled limit cycle (Stuart-Landau) oscillators. A "hybrid dispersion relation" is introduced, which describes the stability of the patterns in spatially extended systems with large time-delay.