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Phys. Rev. Lett. 73, 1364–1367 (1994)

Combining Topological Analysis and Symbolic Dynamics to Describe a Strange Attractor and Its Crises

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M. Lefranc1, P. Glorieux1, F. Papoff2, F. Molesti3, and E. Arimondo3
1Laboratoire de Spectroscopie Hertzienne, URA CNRS 249, Université de Lille I, F-59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
2Physics Department, University of Strathclyde, 107 Rottenrow, Glasgow, G4 ONG, United Kingdom
3Dipartimento di Fisica, Piazza Torricelli 2, 56126 Pisa, Italy

Received 27 July 1993; published in the issue dated 5 September 1994

We show how to use topological analysis to construct from experimental data a symbolic coding of a chaotic attractor. Time series data from a chaotic CO2 laser with modulated losses operating within parameter regions corresponding to attractor crises have been analyzed. A procedure for determining a generating partition from the data is presented, and the connection between crises and a symbolic description of the dynamics is determined.

© 1994 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.73.1364
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.73.1364
PACS:
05.45.+b, 42.50.Lc, 42.55.Lt