10 GHz bandwidth nonlinear delay electro-optic phase dynamics for ultrafast nonlinear transient computing

Summary form only given. Nonlinear delay dynamical systems have found several fundamental and applied issues in Optics, since delays from time of flight of the light becomes easily important, even with a few cm of fibers, compared to fast or even ultra-fast photonic response times. Fiber pigtailed modern Telecom devices can thus provide easy system design strategies to build well-controlled high complexity nonlinear delay dynamics. Recently in that context, electro-optic phase modulation, combined with an imbalanced Mach-Zehnder DPSK demodulator providing a temporally nonlocal nonlinear phase-to-intensity conversion, together with a delayed optoelectronic feedback loop, was proposed as an efficient optical chaos generator for demonstrating 10 Gb/s optical chaos communications.