Abstract
In this experimental study, several control parameters that affect laser network synchronization are investigated, namely,
laser bias currents, coupling strength, optical injection (OI) strength, optoelectronic feedback (OEFB) ratio, and optical
feedback (OFB) ratio. Higher nonlinearities were observed when operating lasers far away from their thresholds. The
system is operated by twin laser sources in both transmitting and receiving units. Novelty is regarded by making each one
of these two lasers subject to OFB and also OEFB in addition to unidirectional OI. The effect of feedback and the
unidirectional OI technique is to avoid information leakage from the slave laser (SL). This is also supported by the change in
time delay associated with each OFB and OEFB laser. Such a technique is called hybrid feedback and injection (HFBI).
Even though a more complicated system is proposed, identical chaotic synchronization is optimized by reducing
mismatching and controlling coupling strength sufficiently. Identical chaotic synchronization is achieved with different
calculated cross-correlation values, which are increased from 24% to 78%. The maximum value for hidden information
within chaotic modulation that was achieved and archived experimentally is 500 MHz. Synchronization diagrams provide
evidence for zero-leg synchronization with no anticipated shift for resulted dynamics. Such a result occurred with the
arrangement of the receiver signal time delay to compensate for the delay that comes from the signal sent from the
transmitter until it reaches the receiver.
Keywords
Chaotic Synchronization, Laser Network, Cross Correlation.
Citation
A. HEMED, R. ABBAS, M. FDHALA, Optimization for chaotic synchronization in a laser diode network by hybrid feedback and unidirectional injection, Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials - Rapid Communications, 18, 3-4, March-April 2024, pp.120-133 (2024).
Submitted at: Sept. 23, 2023
Accepted at: April 8, 2024