• Pu Li
    Taiyuan University of Technology
  • Qiang Cai
    Taiyuan University of Technology
  • Jianguo Zhang
    Taiyuan University of Technology
  • Bingjie Xu
    Institute of Southwestern Communication
  • Yiming Liu
    Institute of Southwestern Communication
  • Adonis Bogris
    University of West Attica
  • K. Alan Shore
  • Yuncai Wang
    Guangdong University of Technology
We demonstrate experimentally that flat and broadband chaotic signals can be easily generated by combining a multi-mode laser diode subject to optical feedback with a band-pass filter. Measurements are made of the RF spectra of multi-mode and single-mode outputs from an external cavity Fabry-Perot (FP) semiconductor laser before and after the filtering procedure. In this way it is found that in the chaos regime the low-frequency energy of the single-mode output is enhanced by about 25 dB comparing with that of the multi-mode output. Moreover, the associated 3-dB chaos bandwidth can reach around 6 GHz for the single mode case. Numerical demonstrations show mode competition is the physical origin of the low-frequency enhancement in the single-mode chaotic outputs.

Keywords

  • Diode lasers, Optical time domain reflectometry, Random number generation, Semiconductor lasers, Single mode lasers, Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)17859-17867
Number of pages9
JournalOptics Express
Volume27
Issue number13
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2019
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