Experimental control of chaos in a periodically driven glow discharge

Abstract
The control of the chaotic state of ionization waves in the positive column of a periodically driven neon glow discharge is achieved by an active feedback technique based on the algorithm suggested by Ott, Grebogy, and Yorke [Phys. Rev. Lett. 64, 1196 (1990)]. Unstable periodic orbits of both low and high periodicity could be stabilized by small, time-dependent variations of the modulation amplitude.