Mid-infrared hyperchaos of interband cascade lasers

Yu Deng; Zhuo-Fei Fan; Bin-Bin Zhao; Xing-Guang Wang; Shiyuan Zhao; Jiagui Wu; Frédéric Grillot; Cheng Wang

doi:10.1038/s41377-021-00697-1

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Mid-infrared hyperchaos of interband cascade lasers

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- Mid-infrared hyperchaos of interband cascade lasers
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 11, Issue 1, Pages: 69-78(2022)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.School of Information Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, 201210, China
  2.LTCI, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Télécom Paris, 19 place Marguerite Perey, 91120, Palaiseau, France
  3.School of Physical Science and Technology, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China
  4.Center for High Technology Materials, University of New-Mexico, 1313 Goddard St SE, Albuquerque, NM, 87106, USA
  5.Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Energy Efficient and Custom AI IC, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, 201210, China
- Author bio：
  
  Jiagui Wu (mgh@swu.edu.cn)
  Frédéric Grillot (frederic.grillot@telecom-paris.fr)
  Cheng Wang (wangcheng1@shanghaitech.edu.cn)
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- DOI：10.1038/s41377-021-00697-1
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- Published：31 January 2022，
  
  Published Online：02 January 2022，
  
  Received：16 September 2021，
  
  Revised：13 December 2021，
  
  Accepted：14 December 2021
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Deng, Y. et al. Mid-infrared hyperchaos of interband cascade lasers. Light: Science & Applications, 11, 69-78 (2022).
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Deng, Y. et al. Mid-infrared hyperchaos of interband cascade lasers. Light: Science & Applications, 11, 69-78 (2022). DOI： 10.1038/s41377-021-00697-1.

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Chaos in nonlinear dynamical systems is featured with irregular appearance and with high sensitivity to initial conditions. Near-infrared light chaos based on semiconductor lasers has been extensively studied and has enabled various applications. Here

we report a fully-developed hyperchaos in the mid-infrared regime

which is produced from interband cascade lasers subject to the external optical feedback. Lyapunov spectrum analysis demonstrates that the chaos exhibits three positive Lyapunov exponents. Particularly

the chaotic signal covers a broad frequency range up to the GHz level

which is two to three orders of magnitude broader than existed mid-infrared chaos solutions. The interband cascade lasers produce either periodic oscillations or low-frequency fluctuations before bifurcating to hyperchaos. This hyperchaos source is valuable for developing long-reach secure optical communication links and remote chaotic Lidar systems

taking advantage of the high-transmission windows of the atmosphere in the mid-infrared regime.

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