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Fabrication and Testing of Microfluidic Optomechanical Oscillators
Published on: May 29, 2014
Sensitivity to external signals and synchronization properties of a non-isochronous auto-oscillator with delayed
Vasil S Tiberkevich1, Roman S Khymyn2, Hong X Tang3
1Department of Physics, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan 48309, USA.
Abstract:
For auto-oscillators of different nature (e.g. active cells in a human heart under the action of a pacemaker, neurons in brain, spin-torque nano-oscillators, micro and nano-mechanical oscillators, or generating Josephson junctions) a critically important property is their ability to synchronize with each other. The synchronization properties of an auto oscillator are directly related to its sensitivity to external signals. Here we demonstrate that a non-isochronous (having generation frequency dependent on the amplitude) auto-oscillator with delayed feedback can have an extremely high sensitivity to external signals and unusually large width of the phase-locking band near the boundary of the stable auto-oscillation regime. This property could be used for the development of synchronized arrays of non-isochronous auto-oscillators in physics and engineering, and, for instance, might bring a better fundamental understanding of ways to control a heart arrythmia in medicine.
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