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Chaos is a fundamental phenomenon in nonlinear dynamics, manifesting as irregular and unpredictable behavior across various physical systems. Among the diverse routes to chaos, intermittent chaos is a distinct transition pathway,…

The synchronization of coupled chaotic systems represents a fundamental example of self organization and collective behavior. This well-studied phenomenon is classically characterized in terms of macroscopic parameters, such as Lyapunov…

Synchronization of self-sustained oscillators under fixed-frequency and amplitude forcing is well understood, but how time-varying forcing mangles phase locking has been much less explored. Theory predicts that slow, deterministic…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-07 Zhenwei Xu , Ulrich Kuhl , Nicolas Noiray

The major development recently undergone by quantum cascade lasers has effectively extended frequency comb emission to longer-wavelength spectral regions, i.e. the mid and far infrared. Unlike classical pulsed frequency combs, their…

A non-autonomous dynamical system is proposed to study the synchronization in networks of mutually coupled optically modulated hyperchaotic CO$_2$ lasers. By the method of master stability function (MSF) it is shown that the stable…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2020-01-27 A. Roy , A. P. Misra , S. Banerjee

We consider dissipative dynamics of atoms in a strong standing laser wave and find a nonlinear dynamical effect of synchronization between center-of-mass motion and internal Rabi oscillations. The synchronization manifests itself in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 V. Yu. Argonov , S. V. Prants

We present detailed numerical simulations of the laser dynamics that describe optical frequency comb formation by injection-locking a gain-switched laser. The typical rate equations for semiconductor lasers including stochastic carrier…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-15 Sean P. O Duill , Prince M. Anandarajah , Rui Zhou , Liam P. Barry

The chaotic synchronization between two bi-directionally coupled external cavity single-mode semiconductor lasers is investigated. Numerical simulation shows that anticipating synchronization and lag synchronization coexist in certain…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 Liang Wu , Shiqun Zhu

We investigate the characteristics of temporal phase locking states observed in the route to phase synchronization. It is found that before phase synchronization there is a periodic phase synchronization state characterized by periodic…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 Won-Ho Kye , Dae-Sic Lee , Sunghwan Rim , Chil-Min Kim , Young-Jai Park

We experimentally study the nonlinear dynamics of a femtosecond ytterbium doped mode-locked fiber laser. With the laser operating in the pulsed regime a route to chaos is presented, starting from stable mode-locking, period two, period…

We investigate the entrainment of a neuron model exhibiting a chaotic spiking-bursting behavior in response to a weak periodic force. This model exhibits two types of oscillations with different characteristic time scales, namely, long and…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-05 Hiroyasu Ando , Hiromichi Suetani , Juergen Kurths , Kazuyuki Aihara

We numerically investigate the dynamics of a closed chain of unidirectionally coupled oscillators in a regime of homoclinic chaos. The emerging synchronization regimes show analogies with the experimental behavior of a single chaotic laser…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 I. Leyva , E. Allaria , S. Boccaletti , F. T. Arecchi

Microresonator-based optical frequency combs have been a topic of extensive research during the last few years. Several theoretical models for the comb generation have been proposed; however, they do not comprehensively address experimental…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-16 Pascal Del'Haye , Scott B. Papp , Scott A. Diddams

Networks of nonlinear units with time-delayed couplings can synchronize to a common chaotic trajectory. Although the delay time may be very large, the units can synchronize completely without time shift. For networks of coupled Bernoulli…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-03-17 A. Englert , S. Heiligenthal , W. Kinzel , I. Kanter

Disorder can profoundly influence synchronization in networks of nonlinear oscillators, sometimes enhancing coherence through external tuning. In semiconductor lasers, however, achieving high-quality steady-state synchronization is desired,…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-03 Li-Li Ye , Nathan Vigne , Fan-Yi Lin , Hui Cao , Ying-Cheng Lai

The generation of stable short optical pulses in mode-locked lasers is of tremendous importance for many applications. Mode-locking is a broad concept that encompasses different processes enabling short pulse formation. It typically…

Nonlinear oscillations and synchronisation phenomena are ubiquitous in nature. We study the synchronization of self oscillating magneto-optically trapped cold atoms to a weak external driving. The oscillations arise from a dynamical…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-04-09 Hermanni Heimonen , Leong Chuan Kwek , Robin Kaiser , Guillaume Labeyrie

A nonlinear model of modulational processes in the subsonic regime involving a linearly unstable wave and two linearly damped waves with different damping rates in a plasma is studied numerically. We compute the maximum Lyapunov exponent as…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-12 Rodrigo A. Miranda , Erico L. Rempel , Abraham C. -L. Chian

A form of "remote synchronization" was recently described wherein amplitude fluctuations across a ring of non-identical, non-linear electronic oscillators become entrained into spatially-structured patterns. According to linear models and…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2018-06-26 Ludovico Minati , Luca Faes , Mattia Frasca , Pawel Oswiecimka , Stanislaw Drozdz

A study of the Mode-locking lasing pulse formation in closed cavities is presented within a statistical mechanical framework where the onset of laser coincides with a thermodynamic phase transition driven by the optical power pumped into…

Optics · Physics 2015-04-24 Fabrizio Antenucci , M. Ibáñez Berganza , Luca Leuzzi