Fig. 1. Experimental schematic diagram of the parallel wideband complex chaos generation. DFB, distributed-feedback laser; PM, electro-optic phase modulator; FC, fiber coupler; CWL, continuous-wave laser; PD, photodetector; M, mirror; VOA, variable optical attenuator; OC, optical circulator; Amp, radio-frequency amplifier; DM, dispersion module.
Fig. 2. (a–c) Experimental time series and (d–f) power spectra of the chaotic signal obtained by the COF-ECSL (first column); those of the chaotic signals obtained from the output-A (second column), and the output-B of the proposed scheme (third column). The feedback strength is fixed to –30 dB.
Fig. 3. Effective bandwidths of the chaotic signals outputted by COF-ECSL (square), output-A (circle) and output-B (downward-triangle), as a function of feedback strength.
Fig. 4. (a–c) ACF traces and (d-f) DMI traces of the chaos generated by COF-ECSL (first column), output-A (second column) and output-B (third column). The feedback strength is fixed to –30 dB.
Fig. 5. |TDS values in (a) ACF traces and (b) DMI traces of the chaos generated by COF-ECSL (square), output-A (circle) and output-B (downward-triangle), as a function of feedback strength.
Fig. 6. PE values of the chaos obtained by the COF-ECSL (square), the output-A (circle) and the output-B (downward-triangle), as a function of the feedback strength.
Fig. 7. Correlation coefficient between chaotic signals obtained from output-A and output-B, as a function of feedback strength. The insets are the temporal waveforms of the two chaotic outputs (with a range of 1 ns) measured at the feedback strengths of –30 dB, –20 dB and –10 dB, respectively.
Fig. 8. Experimental time series (left column) and amplitude probability distributions (right column) of (a) the chaos generated by the COF-ECSL, as well as (b) the chaotic output-A and (c) the chaotic output-B of the proposed scheme.