EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE FOR SYNCHRONOUS BEHAVIOR OF CHAOTIC NONLINEAR OSCILLATORS WITH UNIDIRECTIONAL OR MUTUAL DRIVING

Experimental evidence is provided for the synchronization of chaotic self-excited oscillators and chaotic synchronous response. With unidirectional coupling between two chaotic nonlinear circuits, synchronous chaotic oscillations can result from either forced synchronization or the response phenomenon. With mutual coupling, two originally chaotic oscillators can become time periodic, a result that we have shown to persist for values of the coupling down to noise level.