Periodic pulling in a driven relaxation oscillator

T. E. Sheridan; Mark E. Koepke; C. A. Selcher; T N. Good

doi:10.1117/12.164760

1 December 1993 Periodic pulling in a driven relaxation oscillator

T. E. Sheridan, Mark E. Koepke, C. A. Selcher, T N. Good

Proceedings Volume 2039, Chaos in Optics; (1993) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.164760
Event: SPIE's 1993 International Symposium on Optics, Imaging, and Instrumentation, 1993, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

Periodic pulling, the incomplete entrainment of a driven, nonlinear oscillator, is observed experimentally in a relaxation oscillator for the first time. A neon-bulb relaxation oscillator is driven by a chopped, neon-resonant, laser beam. For driving frequencies just outside the range for entrainment, the signatures of periodic pulling are verified. The experimental results are qualitatively reproduced in numerical solutions of the driven van der Pol equation.

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T. E. Sheridan, Mark E. Koepke, C. A. Selcher, and T N. Good "Periodic pulling in a driven relaxation oscillator", Proc. SPIE 2039, Chaos in Optics, (1 December 1993); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.164760

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