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Antonio Mecozzi1, Cristian Antonelli, Valerio Annovazzi-Lodi
1Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica e dell'Informazione and CNISM, Università dell'Aquila, 67040 L'Aquila, Italy. amecozzi@ing.univaq.it
Optics Letters
|May 5, 2009
Abstract:
We show theoretically and experimentally that a semiconductor laser driven to chaos by optical feedback may be self-synchronized by reinjection of a delayed replica of its same optical output. The ensuing periodic regularity of the self-synchronized laser output is analyzed.
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