Synchronization and time shifts of dynamical patterns for mutually delay-coupled fiber ring lasers

DOI10.1063/1.2150407zbMATH Open1144.37407arXivnlin/0603063OpenAlexW2032831695WikidataQ30813089 ScholiaQ30813089MaRDI QIDQ3529686FDOQ3529686

Authors: Leah B. Shaw, Elizabeth A. Rogers, Rajarshi Roy, Ira B. Schwartz 

Publication date: 14 October 2008

Published in: Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A pair of coupled erbium doped fiber ring lasers is used to explore the dynamics of coupled spatiotemporal systems. The lasers are mutually coupled with a coupling delay less than the cavity round-trip time. We study synchronization between the two lasers in the experiment and in a delay differential equation model of the system. Because the lasers are internally perturbed by spontaneous emission, we include a noise source in the model to obtain stochastic realizations of the deterministic equations. Both amplitude synchronization and phase synchronization are considered. We use the Hilbert transform to define the phase variable and compute phase synchronization. We find that synchronization increases with coupling strength in the experiment and the model. When the time series from two lasers are time-shifted in either direction by the delay time, approximately equal synchronization is frequently observed, so that a clear leader and follower cannot be identified. We define an algorithm to determine which laser leads the other when the synchronization is sufficiently different with one direction of time shift, and statistics of switches in leader and follower are studied. The frequency of switching between leader and follower increases with coupling strength, as might be expected since the lasers mutually influence each other more effectively with stronger coupling.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0603063

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Strange attractors, chaotic dynamics of systems with hyperbolic behavior (37D45)

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