Dynamical spatial-pattern memory in globally coupled lasers

Abstract
The chaotic dynamics found in globally coupled modulated laser systems have been switched into stable orbits, including antiphase periodic states and clustered states, by an injection-seeding method. Direct assignment to desired factorial periodic orbits has been demonstrated. Self-induced switching among destabilized clustered states (chaotic itinerancy) in the transition process from clustered states to global chaos has also been found.