Using Disorder to Overcome Disorder: A Mechanism for Frequency and Phase Synchronization of Diode Laser Arrays

Noise and disorder are known, in certain circumstances and for certain systems, to improve the level of coherence over that of the noise-free system. Examples include cases in which disorder enhances response to periodic signals, and those where it suppresses chaotic behavior. We report a new type o...

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Veröffentlicht in:Physical review letters 2021-10, Vol.127 (17), p.1-173901, Article 173901
Hauptverfasser: Nair, N, Hu, K, Berrill, M, Wiesenfeld, K, Braiman, Y
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Noise and disorder are known, in certain circumstances and for certain systems, to improve the level of coherence over that of the noise-free system. Examples include cases in which disorder enhances response to periodic signals, and those where it suppresses chaotic behavior. We report a new type of disorder-enhancing mechanism, observed in a model that describes the dynamics of external cavity-coupled semiconductor laser arrays, where disorder of one type mitigates (and overcomes) the desynchronization effects due to a different disorder source. Here, we demonstrate stabilization of dynamical states due to frequency locking and subsequently frequency locking-induced phase locking. We have reduced the equations to a potential model that illustrates the mechanism behind the misalignment-induced frequency and phase synchronization.
ISSN:0031-9007
1079-7114
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.173901