Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Nanostructured Devices. Modeling Quantum-Dot-Based Devices / Kathy Ludge -- Exploiting Noise and Polarization Bistability in Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers for Fast Pulse Generation and Logic Operations / Jordi Zamora-Munt, Cristina Masoller -- Mode Competition Driving Laser Nonlinear Dynamics / Marc Sciamanna -- Quantum Cascade Laser: An Emerging Technology / Andreas Wacker -- Controlling Charge Domain Dynamics in Superlattices / Mark T Greenaway, Alexander G Balanov, T Mark Fromhold -- Coupled Laser Device. Quantum Dot Laser Tolerance to Optical Feedback / Christian Otto, Kathy Ludge, Evgeniy Viktorov, Thomas Erneux -- Bifurcation Study of a Semiconductor Laser with Saturable Absorber and Delayed Optical Feedback / Bernd Krauskopf, Jamie J Walker -- Modeling of Passively Mode-Locked Semiconductor Lasers / Andrei G Vladimirov, Dmitrii Rachinskii, Matthias Wolfrum -- Dynamical and Synchronization Properties of Delay-Coupled Lasers / Cristina M Gonzalez, Miguel C Soriano, M Carme Torrent, Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo, Ingo Fischer -- Complex Networks Based on Coupled Two-Mode Lasers / Andreas Amann -- 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 Lucken, Serhiy Yanchuk -- Broadband Chaos / Kristine E Callan, Lucas Illing, Daniel J Gauthier -- Synchronization of Chaotic Networks and Secure Communication / Ido Kanter, Wolfgang Kinzel -- Desultory Dynamics in Diode-Lasers: Drift, Diffusion, and Delay / K Alan Shore.

"The book combines recent results of quantum dot laser modeling with mathematical details and an analytic understanding of nonlinear phenomena in semiconductor lasers and points out possible applications of lasers in cryptography and chaos control. This interdisciplinary approach makes it a unique and powerful source of knowledge for anyone intending to contribute to this field of research."--Provided by publisher.

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