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- ItemNon-local and local temporal cavity soliton interaction in delay models of mode-locked lasers(Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2021) Vladimirov, Andrei G.Interaction equations governing slow time evolution of the coordinates and phases of two interacting temporal cavity solitons in a delay differential equation model of a nonlinear mirror mode-locked laser are derived and analyzed. It is shown that non-local pulse interaction due to gain depletion and recovery can lead either to a development of harmonic mode-locking regime, or to a formation of closely packed incoherent soliton bound state with weakly oscillating intersoliton time separation. Local interaction via electric field tails can result in an anti-phase or in-phase stationary or breathing harmonic mode-locking regime.
- ItemBroadening of mode-locking pulses in quantum-dot semiconductor lasers : simulation, analysis and experiments(Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2010) Radziunas, Mindaugas; Vladimirov, Andrei G.; Viktorov, Evgeny A.; Fiol, Gerrit; Schmeckebier, Holger; Bimberg, DieterWe consider a mode-locked quantum-dot edge-emitting semiconductor laser consisting of a reverse biased saturable absorber and a forward biased amplifying section. To describe the dynamics of this laser we use the traveling wave model taking into account carrier exchange processes between a reservoir and the quantum dots. A comprehensive parameter study is presented and an analysis of mode-locking pulse broadening with an increase of injection current is performed. The results of our theoretical analysis are supported by experimental data demonstrating a strong pulse asymmetry in a monolithic two section quantum dot mode-locked laser
- ItemAn optically injected mode locked laser(Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2010) Rebrova, Natalia; Huyet, Guillaume; Rachinskii, Dmitrii; Vladimirov, Andrei G.We study analytically and numerically a delay differential model of a passively mode-locked semiconductor laser subjected to a single frequency coherent injection. The width of the locking cone is calculated asymptotically in the limit of small injection and compared to that obtained by direct numerical integration of the model equations. The dependence of the locking cone on the laser parameters is discussed
- ItemDynamics of an inhomogeneously broadened passively mode-locked laser(Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2018) Pimenov, Alexander; Vladimirov, Andrei G.We study theoretically the effect of inhomogeneous broadening of the gain and absorption lines on the dynamics of a passively mode-locked laser. We demonstrate numerically using travelling wave equations the formation of a Lamb-dip instability and suppression of Q-switching in a laser with large inhomogeneous broadening. We derive simplified delay-differential equation model for a mode-locked laser with inhomogeneously broadened gain and absorption lines and perform numerical bifurcation analysis of this model.
- ItemStrong synchronization of weakly interacting oscillons(Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2011) Turaev, Dmitry; Vladimirov, Andrei G.; Zelik, SergeyWe study interaction of well-separated oscillating localized structures (oscillons). We show that oscillons emit weakly decaying dispersive waves, which leads to formation of bound states due to subharmonic synchronization. We also show that in optical applications the Andronov-Hopf bifurcation of stationary localized structures leads to a drastic increase in their interaction strength.
- ItemDissipative soliton interaction in Kerr resonators with high-order dispersion(Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2021) Vladimirov, Andrei G.; Tlidi, Mustapha; Taki, MajidWe consider an optical resonator containing a photonic crystal fiber and driven coherently by an injected beam. This device is described by a generalized Lugiato--Lefever equation with fourth order dispersion We use an asymptotic approach to derive interaction equations governing the slow time evolution of the coordinates of two interacting dissipative solitons. We show that Cherenkov radiation induced by positive fourth-order dispersion leads to a strong increase of the interaction force between the solitons. As a consequence, large number of equidistant soliton bound states in the phase space of the interaction equations can be stabilized. We show that the presence of even small spectral filtering not only dampens the Cherenkov radiation at the soliton tails and reduces the interaction strength, but can also affect the bound state stability.
- ItemA generalized Haus master equation model for mode-locked class-B lasers(Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2021) Nizette, Michel; Vladimirov, Andrei G.Using the multiscale technique we develop a generalized version of the class-B Haus modelocking model that accounts for both the slow gain response to the averaged value of the field intensity and the fast gain dynamics on the scale comparable to the pulse duration. We show that unlike the standard class-B Haus mode-locked model, our model is able to describe not only Q-switched instability of the fundamental mode-locked regime, but also the appearance of harmonic mode-locked regimes with the increase of the pump power.
- ItemHybrid mode-locking in edge-emitting semiconductor lasers: Simulations, analysis and experiments(Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2012) Arkhipov, Rostislav; Pimenov, Alexander; Radziunas, Mindaugas; Vladimirov, Andrei G.; Arsenjevi´c, Dejan; Rachinskii, Dmitrii; Schmeckebier, Holger; Bimberg, DieterHybrid mode-locking in a two section edge-emitting semiconductor laser is studied numerically and analytically using a set of three delay differential equations. In this set the external RF signal applied to the saturable absorber section is modeled by modulation of the carrier relaxation rate in this section. Estimation of the locking range where the pulse repetition frequency is synchronized with the frequency of the external modulation is performed numerically and the effect of the modulation shape and amplitude on this range is investigated. Asymptotic analysis of the dependence of the locking range width on the laser parameters is carried out in the limit of small signal modulation. Our numerical simulations indicate that hybrid mode-locking can be also achieved in the cases when the frequency of the external modulation is approximately twice larger and twice smaller than the pulse repetition frequency of the free running passively mode-locked laser fP . Finally, we provide an experimental demonstration of hybrid mode-locking in a 20 GHz quantum-dot laser with the modulation frequency of the reverse bias applied to the absorber section close to fP / 2.
- ItemLight bullets in a time-delay model of a wide-aperture mode-locked semiconductor laser(Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2018) Pimenov, Alexander; Javaloyes, Julien; Gurevich, Svetlana V.; Vladimirov, Andrei G.Recently, a mechanism of formation of light bullets (LBs) in wide-aperture passively modelocked lasers was proposed. The conditions for existence and stability of these bullets, found in the long cavity limit, were studied theoretically under the mean field (MF) approximation using a Haus-type model equation. In this paper we relax the MF approximation and study LB formation in a model of a wide-aperture three section laser with a long diffractive section and short absorber and gain sections. To this end we derive a nonlocal delay-differential equation (NDDE) model and demonstrate by means of numerical simulations that this model supports stable LBs. We observe that the predictions about the regions of existence and stability of the LBs made previously using MF laser models agree well with the results obtained using the NDDE model. Moreover, we demonstrate that the general conclusions based upon the Haus model that regard the robustness of the LBs remain true in the NDDE model valid beyond the MF approximation, when the gain, losses and diffraction per cavity round-trip are not small perturbations anymore.
- ItemEffect of chromatic dispersion on multimode laser dynamics: Delay differential model(Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2016) Vladimirov, Andrei G.; Huyet, Guillaume; Pimenov, AlexanderA set of differential equations with distributed delay is derived for modeling of multimode ring lasers with intracavity chromatic dispersion. Analytical stability analysis of continuous wave regimes is performed and it is demonstrated that sufficiently strong anomalous dispersion can destabilize these regimes.