Chaotic itinerancy in a coupled-element multistable optical chain
- 1 January 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 43 (1) , 618-621
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.43.618
Abstract
Self-induced wandering among local attractors, that is, chaotic itinerancy, and the chaotic search of coexisting periodic or chaotic local orbits have been discovered in a nonequilibrium optical system with distributed nonlinear elements (Otsuka-Ikeda model system). It is shown on the basis of numerical simulations that spatiotemporal chaos in this system is interpreted as unstable motions which dynamically connect destabilized spatial structures via a chaotic itinerancy process.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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