Controlling two chaotic lasers via OD-DCF

Abstract

We present a novelty optoelectronic delay double-cross-feedback (OD-DCF) scheme to control two chaotic lasers based on coupled lasers. We design out the OD-DCF technical solution to convert two lights from two lasers into two photocurrents by two photo-detectors, and then the delay photocurrents are cross-fed back to each other’s lasers respectively to suppress two chaotic oscillations and guide two laser’s dynamics behaviours, respectively. By adjusting the feedback levels and delayed time of OD-DCF, two lasers can obtain chaos-control and show all kinds of dynamics behaviours. We find that chaotic oscillation behaviours of two lasers are suppressed into a stable state and different quasi-cycle states, such as a cycle-one, cycle-two, a cycle-three, a cycle-four, and other quasi-cycle states. We find also that two movement behaviours of two lasers can be controlled to lead to two different cycle-double states. The results prove that the control of two chaotic lasers can be effectively realized via OD-DCF. It is very helpful for our studies of control science, nonlinear optics, chaos, and laser.