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    Bistability and hysteresis in an optically injected two-section semiconductor laser
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2014) Pimenov, Alexander; Viktorov, Evgeniy A.; Hegarty, Stephen P.; Habruseva, Tatiana; Huyet, Guillaume; Rachinskii, Dmitrii; Vladimirov, Andrei G.
    The effect of coherent single frequency injection on two-section semiconductor lasers is studied numerically using a model based on a set of delay differential equations. The existence of bistability between different CW and non-stationary regimes of operation is demonstrated in the case of sufficiently large linewidth enhancement factors.
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    Effect of Cherenkov radiation on localized states interaction
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2018) Vladimirov, Andrei G.; Gurevich, Svetlana V.; Tlidi, Mustapha
    We study theoretically the interaction of temporal localized states in all fiber cavities and microresonator-based optical frequency comb generators. We show that Cherenkov radiation emitted in the presence of third order dispersion breaks the symmetry of the localized structures interaction and greatly enlarges their interaction range thus facilitating the experimental observation of the dissipative soliton bound states. Analytical derivation of the reduced equations governing slow time evolution of the positions of two interacting localized states in a generalized Lugiato-Lefever model with the third order dispersion term is performed. Numerical solutions of the model equation are in close agreement with analytical predictions.
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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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    Dispersive time-delay dynamical systems
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2016) Pimenov, Alexander; Slepneva, Svetlana; Huyet, Guillaume; Vladimirov, Andrei G.
    We present a theoretical approach to model the dynamics of a dispersive nonlinear system using a set of delay differential equations with distributed delay term. We illustrate the use of this approach by considering a frequency swept laser comprising a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA), a tunable bandpass filter and a long dispersive fiber delay line. We demonstrate that this system exhibits a rich spectrum of dynamical behaviors which are in agreement with the experimental observations. In particular, the multimode modulational instability observed experimentally in the laser in the anomalous dispersion regime and leading to a turbulent laser output was found analytically in the limit of large delay time.
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    Timing jitter in passively mode-locked semiconductor lasers
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2014) Pimenov, Alexander; Rachinskii, Dmitrii; Habruseva, Tatiana; Hegarty, Stephen P.; Guillaume, Huyet; Vladimirov, Andrei G.
    We study the effect of noise on the dynamics of passively mode-locked semiconductor lasers both experimentally and theoretically. A method combining analytical and numerical approaches for estimation of pulse timing jitter is proposed. We investigate how the presence of dynamical features such as wavelength bistability affects timing jitter.
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    Temporal dissipative solitons in a delayed model of a ring semiconductor laser
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2018) Pimenov, Alexander; Amiranashvili, Shalva; Vladimirov, Andrei G.
    Temporal cavity solitons are short pulses observed in periodic time traces of the electric field envelope in active and passive optical cavities. They sit on a stable background so that their trajectory comes close to a stable CW solution between the pulses. A common approach to predict and study these solitons theoretically is based on the use of Ginzburg-Landau-type partial differential equations, which, however, cannot adequately describe the dynamics of many realistic laser systems. Here for the first time we demonstrate formation of temporal cavity soliton solutions in a time-delay model of a ring semiconductor cavity with coherent optical injection, operating in anomalous dispersion regime, and perform bifurcation analysis of these solutions.
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    Semiconductor mode-locked lasers with coherent dual mode optical injection: Simulations, analysis and experiment
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2015) Arkhipov, Rostislav M.; Habruseva, Tatiana; Pimenov, Alexander; Radziunas, Mindaugas; Huyet, Guillaume; Vladimirov, Andrei G.
    Using a delay differential equations model we study the dynamics of a passively modelocked semiconductor laser with dual frequency coherent optical injection. The locking regions where the laser pulse repetition rate is synchronized to the separation of the two injected frequencies were calculated numerically and measured experimentally. Asymptotic analysis performed in the limit of the small injection field amplitude revealed the dependence of the locking regions on the model parameters, such as optical bandwidth, absorber recovery time and linear losses.
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    Delayed feedback control of self-mobile cavity solitons in a wide-aperture laser with a saturable absorber
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2017) Schemmelmann, Tobias; Tabbert, Felix; Pimenov, Alexander; Vladimirov, Andrei G.; Gurevich, Svetlana V.
    We investigate the spatiotemporal dynamics of cavity solitons in a broad area vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser with saturable absorption subjected to time-delayed optical feedback. Using a combination of analytical, numerical and path continuation methods we analyze the bifurcation structure of stationary and moving cavity solitons and identify two different types of traveling localized solutions, corresponding to slow and fast motion. We show that the delay impacts both stationary and moving solutions either causing drifting and wiggling dynamics of initially stationary cavity solitons or leading to stabilization of intrinsically moving solutions. Finally, we demonstrate that the fast cavity solitons can be associated with a lateral mode-locking regime in a broad-area laser with a single longitudinal mode.
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    Multi-stability and polariton formation in microcavity polaritonic waveguides
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2015) Slavcheva, Gabriela; Gorbach, Andrey V.; Pimenov, Alexander; Vladimirov, Andrei G.; Skryabin, Dmitry
    Nonlinear polaritons in microcavity waveguides are demonstrated to exhibit multi-stable behaviour and rich dynamics, including filamentation and soliton formation. We find that the multi-stability originates from co-existense of different transverse modes of the polaritonic waveguide. Modulational stability and conditions for multi-mode polariton solitons are studied. Soliton propagation in tilted, relative to the pump momentum, waveguides is demonstrated and a critical tilt angle for the soliton propagation is found.
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    Strong asymmetry of mode-locking pulses in quantum-dot semiconductor lasers
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2010) Radziunas, Mindaugas; Vladimirov, Andrei G.; Viktorov, Evgeny A.; Fiol, Gerrit; Schmeckebier, Holger; Birnmberg, Dieter
    We describe the formation of a strong pulse asymmetry in mode-locked quantum-dot edge-emitting two-section semiconductor lasers. A mode decomposition technique reveals the role of the superposition of different modal groups. The results of theoretical analysis are supported by experimental data.