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Nonlinear dynamics

Optoelectronic chaos

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Optoelectronic circuits with delayed feedback provide a convenient bench-top platform to study a wide range of nonlinear dynamic systems, from ultrastable clocks to complex chaotic devices.

Every time we turn on a computer we are reminded that nothing happens instantaneously. All physical systems exhibit a finite time delay between the moment we provide a stimulus and the moment the system returns a response. In many situations, the response also depends nonlinearly on the input, such that the evolution of the system in the present depends very sensitively on its state in the past. Such nonlinear time-delay systems can display complex dynamic behaviour, but in fact they are ubiquitous in nature and include such examples as predator–prey relationships, cell regulation and neural synchronization.

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Figure 1: Working principle and dynamic behaviour of an optoelectronic oscillator.

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  1. Laurent Larger and John M. Dudley are at the Institut FEMTO-ST, CNRS UMR 6174, Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon 25030 cedex, France. john.dudley@univ-fcomte.fr,

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Larger, L., Dudley, J. Optoelectronic chaos. Nature 465, 41–42 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/465041a

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