Experimental Targeting and Control of Spatiotemporal Chaos in Nonlinear Optics
Abstract
We demonstrate targeting and control over spatiotemporal chaos in an optical feedback loop experiment. Different stationary target patterns are stabilized in real time by means of a two dimensional space extended perturbation field driven by an interfaced computer and applied in real space to a liquid crystal display device inserted within a control optical loop. The flexibility of the system in switching between different target patterns is also demonstrated.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- August 2004
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.063902
- arXiv:
- arXiv:nlin/0401001
- Bibcode:
- 2004PhRvL..93f3902P
- Keywords:
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- 42.65.Sf;
- 05.45.Gg;
- 05.45.Jn;
- 47.54.+r;
- Dynamics of nonlinear optical systems;
- optical instabilities optical chaos and complexity and optical spatio-temporal dynamics;
- Control of chaos applications of chaos;
- High-dimensional chaos;
- Nonlinear Sciences - Chaotic Dynamics;
- Nonlinear Sciences - Pattern Formation and Solitons