Issue |
EPL
Volume 79, Number 6, September 2007
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Article Number | 64003 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | Electromagnetism, Optics, Acoustics, Heat Transfer, Classical Mechanics, and Fluid Dynamics | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/79/64003 | |
Published online | 03 September 2007 |
Synchronization via clustering in a small delay-coupled laser network
Departament de Física i Enginyeria Nuclear, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - Colom 11, E-08222 Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain
Received:
12
May
2007
Accepted:
3
August
2007
We study experimentally how synchronization emerges in a small network of delay-coupled lasers, as the coupling strength increases. Specifically, we optically couple three semiconductor lasers to each other via an external mirror. The system exhibits natural mismatches between its three elements, and is designed so that the coupling delays and strengths are non-uniform throughout the network. For weak coupling a cluster arises where two lasers synchronize their low-frequency dynamics; for stronger coupling all three lasers synchronize. A simple model gives good agreement with the experimental observations.
PACS: 42.65.Sf – Dynamics of nonlinear optical systems; optical instabilities, optical chaos and complexity, and optical spatio-temporal dynamics / 05.45.Xt – Synchronization; coupled oscillators / 42.55.Px – Semiconductor lasers; laser diodes
© Europhysics Letters Association, 2007
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