Suppressing noise-induced intensity pulsations in semiconductor lasers by means of time-delayed feedback

TL;DR

This paper explores a method using time-delayed feedback to effectively suppress noise-induced intensity pulsations in semiconductor lasers, combining analytical and numerical approaches to demonstrate its efficiency.

Contribution

It introduces a novel feedback control scheme for noise suppression in semiconductor lasers, supported by analytical expressions and numerical simulations.

Findings

Strong modulation of oscillation amplitude via delay time

Effective suppression of relaxation oscillations

Validation in Lang-Kobayashi laser model

Abstract

We investigate the possibility to suppress noise-induced intensity pulsations (relaxation oscillations) in semiconductor lasers by means of a time-delayed feedback control scheme. This idea is first studied in a generic normal form model, where we derive an analytic expression for the mean amplitude of the oscillations and demonstrate that it can be strongly modulated by varying the delay time. We then investigate the control scheme analytically and numerically in a laser model of Lang-Kobayashi type and show that relaxation oscillations excited by noise can be very efficiently suppressed via feedback from a Fabry-Perot resonator.