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Title: Analog circuits simulation of communication with chaotic lasers

Journal Article · · Applied Physics Letters
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.118578· OSTI ID:495233
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  1. Departamento de Fisica, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, 50732-910 Recife PE (Brazil)

Masked signal communication between two chaotic lasers, described by rate equations, was implemented using analog circuits. Digital modulation of the gain parameter in the master circuit generated the messages. It is shown that there is a level of modulation for which the receiver circuit decodes the signal by on-off synchronization while the Poincare sections, the first return maps and the time of return maps recovered directly from the master signal could not distinguish the bits. The circuits simulate the dynamics of two optically coupled CO{sub 2} lasers with intracavity saturable absorber. The signal appears to be unbreakable in such low dimensional systems because they operate at homoclinic chaos which corresponds to multibranched one-dimensional return maps. {copyright} {ital 1997 American Institute of Physics.}

OSTI ID:
495233
Journal Information:
Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 70, Issue 11; Other Information: PBD: Mar 1997
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English