Nonlinear Laser Dynamics

Part I Nanostructured Devices
Modeling Quantum-Dot-Based Devices
Kathy Lüdge
Exploiting Noise and Polarization Bistability in Vertical-Cavity
Surface-Emitting Lasers for Fast Pulse Generation and Logic Operations
J. Zamora-Munt and Cristina Masoller
Mode Competition Driving Laser Nonlinear Dynamics
Marc Sciamanna
Quantum Cascade Laser: An Emerging Technology
Andreas Wacker
Controlling Charge Domain Dynamics in Superlattices
M. T. Greenaway, Alexander G. Balanov, E. Schöll, and T.M. Fromhold
Bifurcation Study of a Semiconductor Laser with Saturable Absorberand Delayed Optical Feedback
Bernd Krauskopf and Jamie J. Walker
Modeling of Passively Mode-Locked Semiconductor Lasers
Andrei G. Vladimirov, Dmitrii Rachinskii, and Matthias Wolfrum
Dynamical and Synchronization Properties of Delay-Coupled
Lasers
C.M. Gonzalez, M.C. Soriano, M.C. Torrent, J. Garcia-Ojalvo, and Ingo Fischer
Complex Networks Based on Coupled Two-Mode Lasers
Andreas Amann
Part III Synchronization and Cryptography
Noise Synchronization and Stochastic Bifurcations in Lasers
Sebastian M. Wieczorek
Emergence of One- and Two-Cluster States in Populations of Globally Pulse-Coupled Oscillators
Leonhard Lücken and Serhiy Yanchuk
Broadband Chaos
Kristine E. Callan, Lucas Illing, and Daniel J. Gauthier
Synchronization of Chaotic Networks and Secure Communication
Ido Kanter and Wolfgang Kinzel
Desultory Dynamics in Diode-Lasers: Drift, Diffusion, and Delay
K. Alan Shore