Measuring phase synchronization of superimposed signals

Phase synchronization is an important phenomenon that occurs in a wide variety of complex oscillatory processes. Measuring phase synchronization can therefore help to gain fundamental insight into nature. In this Letter we point out that synchronization analysis techniques can detect spurious synchronization, if they are fed with a superposition of signals such as in electroencephalography or magnetoencephalography data. We show how techniques from blind source separation can help to nevertheless measure the true synchronization and avoid such pitfalls.     

Chaos synchronization and communication of mutual coupling lasers ring based on incoherent injection

A chaos secure communication system of mutual coupling lasers ring based on incoherent optical injection is proposed, in which fine tuning of optical frequency is not required compared with other schemes based on coherent optical injection. Therefore the secure communication scheme is attractive for experimental investigation. The dynamics of semiconductor lasers in the coupling ring are examined. Numerical investigations indicate that zero lag synchronization can be achieved under equal coupling time and strength of mutual coupling. Furthermore, by chaos shift keying (CSK), secure communication is simulated with a random bit stream of 1.0 Gbit/s. The results confirm the possibility of applying incoherent schemes of mutual coupling lasers ring to realize chaotic secure communication.     

运动后人体心肺节律同步关系及信号的耦合方向

研究运动后青年心肺系统的耦合关系.通过提取在校学生运动后的心跳和呼吸信号,采用经验模态分解的方法对信号进行滤波,分析了心肺信号的相同步行为和心肺节律间耦合作用的相对强弱关系.结果表明,人体在运动后仍然存在心肺系统节律同步现象.这种同步比例不仅因人而异,而且因时而异.由传递熵的计算结果得知,呼吸对于心跳的耦合作用相对较大.     

Directional coupling of optical signals by odd dark beams with mixed phase dislocations

Numerical simulations on the evolution of step-screw and edge-screw optical phase dislocations in bulk saturable self-defocusing nonlinear media are presented, with emphasis on their ability to induce steering waveguides for signal beams (pulses). Two schemes for directional coupling of such signals, both ensuring a reasonable coupling-to-cross-talk efficiency ratio, are investigated. The parameters useful for performance optimization of the couplers are discussed. Received: 19 July 2000 / Revised version: 5 February 2001 / Published online: 27 April 2001     

采用振幅耦合方法研究多旋转中心混沌振子的相同步

为了找到具有多个旋转中心的混沌系统的相同步与其动力学拓朴变化之间的对应关系，采用线性振幅线性耦合方法，研究了Lorenz系统和Duffing系统的相同步，首先对Lorenz系统和Duffing系统分别进行极坐标变换，在线性振幅耦合基础上计算了两个系统的平均旋转数和Lyapunov指数，发现，随耦合强度的增大，系统相同步与系统的Lyapunov指数跃变存在一一对应的关系，这表明具有多个旋转中心的混沌系统的相同步与系统动力学拓朴变化也存在着对应关系. 关键词： Lyapunov指数 振幅耦合 相同步     

Noise enhanced phase synchronization and coherence resonance in sets of chaotic oscillators with weak global coupling

The effect of noise on phase synchronization in small sets and larger populations of weakly coupled chaotic oscillators is explored. Both independent and correlated noise are found to enhance phase synchronization of two coupled chaotic oscillators below the synchronization threshold; this is in contrast to the behavior of two coupled periodic oscillators. This constructive effect of noise results from the interplay between noise and the locking features of unstable periodic orbits. We show that in a population of nonidentical chaotic oscillators, correlated noise enhances synchronization in the weak coupling region. The interplay between noise and weak coupling induces a collective motion in which the coherence is maximal at an optimal noise intensity. Both the noise-enhanced phase synchronization and the coherence resonance numerically observed in coupled chaotic R?ssler oscillators are verified experimentally with an array of chaotic electrochemical oscillators.     

Synchronization of quantum cascade lasers with mutual optoelectronic coupling

In this study, the operating conditions to obtain complete synchronization in two quantum cascade lasers with mutual optoelectronic coupling are analyzed. Synchronization properties and the effect of parameter mismatches on synchronization quality are investigated. The present simulation shows that the complete synchronization can be realized under suitable system parameters. The results of the present simulation indicate that the significant effects of coupling strength, photon lifetime and gain stages number on the synchronization quality. On the other hand, the present results indicate that the insignificant effect of the feedback delay time, the coupling delay time and the synchronization can occur at any delay-time conditions (DTCs).     

Newtonian time synchronization with the help of light signals

As light clocks with equal “arms” moving with the same velocity have the same rate, then, with the help of two such clocks put at the opposite ends of their mutual “arm”, one can measure the laboratory's absolute velocity by rotating the apparatus over 360°.     

Chaotic synchronization through coupling strategies

Usually, complete synchronization (CS) is regarded as the form of synchronization proper of identical chaotic systems, while generalized synchronization (GS) extends CS in nonidentical systems. However, this generally accepted view ignores the role that the coupling plays in determining the type of synchronization. In this work, we show that by choosing appropriate coupling strategies, CS can be observed in coupled chaotic systems with parameter mismatch, and GS can also be achieved in coupled identical systems. Numerical examples are provided to demonstrate these findings. Moreover, experimental verification based on electronic circuits has been carried out to support the numerical results. Our work provides a method to obtain robust CS in synchronization-based chaos communications.     

耦合系统的混沌相位同步

通过引入混沌运动的相位定义分析了线性和非线性耦合参数对两个主共振子系统之间的混沌相位同步的影响.讨论了在近似于主共振条件下,两子系统不同步、不完全相位同步和完全相位同步之间的演化过程,揭示了不同状态相互转化与Lyapunov指数变化之间的关系,指出随着线性耦合力的增加,相位同步效应增强,然而随着非线性耦合力的增加,相位同步效应减弱. 关键词： 相位同步 Rssler振子 耦合 Lyapunov指数     

Phase synchronization of instrumental music signals

Signal analysis is one of the finest scientific techniques in communication theory. Some quantitative and qualitative measures describe the pattern of a music signal, vary from one to another. Same musical recital, when played by different instrumentalists, generates different types of music patterns. The reason behind various patterns is the psycho-acoustic measures – Dynamics, Timber, Tonality and Rhythm, varies in each time. However, the psycho-acoustic study of the music signals does not reveal any idea about the similarity between the signals. For such cases, study of synchronization of long-term nonlinear dynamics may provide effective results. In this context, phase synchronization (PS) is one of the measures to show synchronization between two non-identical signals. In fact, it is very critical to investigate any other kind of synchronization for experimental condition, because those are completely non identical signals. Also, there exists equivalence between the phases and the distances of the diagonal line in Recurrence plot (RP) of the signals, which is quantifiable by the recurrence quantification measure τ-recurrence rate. This paper considers two nonlinear music signals based on same raga played by two eminent sitar instrumentalists as two non-identical sources. The psycho-acoustic study shows how the Dynamics, Timber, Tonality and Rhythm vary for the two music signals. Then, long term analysis in the form of phase space reconstruction is performed, which reveals the chaotic phase spaces for both the signals. From the RP of both the phase spaces, τ-recurrence rate is calculated. Finally by the correlation of normalized tau-recurrence rate of their 3D phase spaces and the PS of the two music signals has been established. The numerical results well support the analysis.     

Phase synchronization from noisy univariate signals

We present methods for detecting phase synchronization of two unidirectionally coupled, self-sustained noisy oscillators from a signal of the driven oscillator alone. One method detects soft phase locking; another hard phase locking. Both are applied to the problem of detecting phase synchronization in von Kármán vortex flow meters.     

Phase synchronization and synchronization frequency of two-coupled van der Pol oscillators with delayed coupling

In this paper, phase synchronization and the frequency of two synchronized van der Pol oscillators with delay coupling are studied. The dynamics of such a system are obtained using the describing function method, and the necessary conditions for phase synchronization are also achieved. Finding the vicinity of the synchronization frequency is the major advantage of the describing function method over other traditional methods. The equations obtained based on this method justify the phenomenon of the synchronization of coupled oscillators on a frequency either higher, between, or lower than the highest, in between, or lowest natural frequency of the aggregate oscillators. Several numerical examples simulate the different cases versus the various synchronization frequency delays.     

Projective synchronization of chaotic systems with bidirectional nonlinear coupling

This paper presents a new scheme for constructing bidirectional nonlinear coupled chaotic systems which synchronize projectively. Conditions necessary for projective synchronization (PS) of two bidirectionally coupled chaotic systems are derived using Lyapunov stability theory. The proposed PS scheme is discussed by taking as examples the so-called unified chaotic model, the Lorenz–Stenflo system and the nonautonomous chaotic Van der Pol oscillator. Numerical simulation results are presented to show the efficiency of the proposed synchronization scheme.     

Time shifting chaotic signals using synchronization

In this paper we examine couplings that produce time-shifted synchronization. We find a surprising variety of time-shifted states can be attained without including an explicit time-delay term in the coupling. We characterize the observed synchronization by determining the dependence of the time shift and cross correlation between the drive and response oscillators on a tunable parameter. Our observations agree well with a recently introduced method for estimating the time shift and cross correlation using a transfer function.     

Observer-based synchronization in complex dynamical networks with nonsymmetric coupling

Based on a general complex dynamical network model with nonsymmetric coupling, some criteria for synchronization are proposed based on the approach of state observer design. Unlike the nonobserver-based dynamical networks, where the coupling between two connected nodes is defined by an inner coupling matrix and full state coupling is typically needed, in this paper, smaller amount of coupling variables or even only a scalar output signal of each node is needed to synchronize the network. Unlike the commonly researched complex network model, where the coupling between nodes is symmetric, here, in our network model, the coupling configuration matrix is not assumed to be symmetric and may have complex eigenvalues. The matrix Jordan canonical formalization method is used instead of the matrix diagonalization method, so in our synchronization criteria, the coupling configuration matrix is not required to be diagonalizable. Especially, the proposed step-by-step approach is simpler in computation than the existent ones, which usually rely heavily on numerical toolbox, and may be done by hand completely. An example is given to illustrate the step-by-step approach, in which each node is a two-dimensional dynamical limit cycle oscillator system consisting of a two-cell cellular neural network, and numerical simulations are also done to verify the results of design.     

Femtosecond synchronization of radio frequency signals with optical pulse trains

A synchronization scheme for extraction of low-jitter rf signals from optical pulse trains, which is robust against photodetector nonlinearities, is described. The scheme is based on a transfer of timing information into an intensity imbalance of the two output beams from a Sagnac loop. Sub-100-fs timing jitter between the extracted 2-GHz rf signal and the 100-MHz optical pulse train from a mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser is demonstrated.     

The mutual synchronization of coupled delayed feedback klystron oscillators

We report on the results of a numerical investigation of the synchronization of two coupled klystron oscillators with an external feedback circuit. Simulation has been carried out using the particle-in-cell method. We have also considered the results of a numerical analysis of an amplifier klystron and an isolated klystron oscillator, which make it possible to choose the optimal values of parameters of coupled klystrons. The structure of the synchronization domain for various parameters has been analyzed. The possibility of increasing the total output power with an appropriate choice of parameter of coupling between the oscillators has been revealed.     

时空混沌系统的主动-间隙耦合同步

提出了离散系统中的主动-间隙耦合同步方法。该方法由同步相和自治相组成,在同步相,同步方案使得混沌系统趋于同步,而在自治相,两系统间的误差将迅速放大,导致同步失去。但只要同步相足够大,最终可实现系统的完全同步。从理论上讨论了同步条件,并在数值实验上讨论了同步相与耦合强度的关系。