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Quantum State Engineering of Light with Continuous-wave Optical Parametric Oscillators
Published on: May 30, 2014
When does noise destroy or enhance synchronous behavior in two mutually coupled light-controlled oscillators?
G M Ramírez Ávila1, J Kurths, J L Guisset
1Institut für Physik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Robert-Koch-Platz 4, 10115 Berlin, Germany.
Abstract:
We study the influence of white gaussian noise in a system of two mutually coupled light-controlled oscillators (LCOs). We show that under certain noise intensity conditions, noise can destroy or enhance synchronization. We build some Arnold tonguelike structures in order to explain the effects due to noise. It is remarkable that noise-enhanced synchronization is possible only when the variances of the noise acting on each of the LCOs are different.
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