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Mid-infrared Quantum Cascade Lasers for Chaos Secure Communications

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Authors:
  1. Olivier Spitz

    1. Telecom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Palaiseau, France

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  • Nominated as an outstanding PhD Thesis by the Université Paris-Saclay
  • Demonstrates how optical chaos can be exploited to provide private free-space communication
  • Adds significantly to our understanding of the nonlinear dynamics of quantum cascade lasers

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Introduction

    • Olivier Spitz
    Pages 1-11

  3. Quantum Cascade Lasers: Mid-Infrared Sources with Outstanding Features

    • Olivier Spitz
    Pages 13-37

  4. Chaos in Quantum Cascade Lasers

    • Olivier Spitz
    Pages 39-97

  5. Chaos Synchronization and Its Application to Secure Communications

    • Olivier Spitz
    Pages 99-136

  6. Rogue Waves and Extreme Events

    • Olivier Spitz
    Pages 137-162

  7. Conclusions and Perspectives

    • Olivier Spitz
    Pages 163-166
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About this book

The mid-infrared domain is a promising optical domain because it holds two transparency atmospheric windows, as well as the fingerprint of many chemical compounds. Quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) are one of the available sources in this domain and have already been proven useful for spectroscopic applications and free-space communications. This thesis demonstrates how to implement a private free-space communication relying on mid-infrared optical chaos and this requires an accurate cartography of non-linear phenomena in quantum cascade lasers.
This private transmission is made possible by the chaos synchronization of two twin QCLs. Chaos in QCLs can be generated under optical injection or external optical feedback. Depending on the parameters of the optical feedback, QCLs can exhibit several non-linear phenomena in addition to chaos. Similarities exist between QCLs and laser diodes when the chaotic dropouts are synchronized with an external modulation, and this effect is known as the entrainment phenomenon. With a cross-polarization reinjection technique, QCLs can generate all-optical square-waves. Eventually, it is possible to trigger optical extreme events in QCLs with tilted optical feedback. All these experimental results allow a better understanding of the non-linear dynamics of QCLs and will extend the potential applications of this kind of semiconductor lasers.



Authors and Affiliations

  • Telecom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Palaiseau, France

    Olivier Spitz

About the author

Olivier Spitz received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Télécom Paris, France, in 2019 and is now a postdoctoral researcher with Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France, working on applications of mid-infrared quantum cascade lasers. He has been a visiting scholar in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the University of California Los Angeles, USA, and in the Institut für Angewandte Physik of the Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany. Dr. Olivier Spitz also works in collaboration with the Laboratoire de Physique of École Normale Supérieure Paris, France. His research interests include nonlinear dynamics, free-space communications, and neuromorphic photonics.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Mid-infrared Quantum Cascade Lasers for Chaos Secure Communications

  • Authors: Olivier Spitz

  • Series Title: Springer Theses

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74307-9

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-74306-2Published: 16 May 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-74309-3Published: 17 May 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-74307-9Published: 15 May 2021

  • Series ISSN: 2190-5053

  • Series E-ISSN: 2190-5061

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 166

  • Number of Illustrations: 34 b/w illustrations, 97 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices, Applications of Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos Theory

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