Synchronization of chaos in microchip lasers by using incoherent feedback

Abstract

We propose a chaos-synchronization scheme using incoherent feedback to the pumping power in two microchip lasers. The population inversion of the slave laser is controlled for synchronization by using the detected signals of the peak heights of chaotic pulse intensities in the two lasers. Matching of the optical frequencies between the two lasers (i.e., injection locking) is not required for synchronization using this method. We numerically demonstrate the incoherent feedback method and investigate synchronization regions against parameter mismatching between the two lasers. Synchronization is maintained within a mismatching of 1% for all laser parameters, which implies that the difficulty in reproducing the synchronized laser pulses is very useful for applications of secure optical communications.