Yun Liu, Peter Davis
Adaptive Selection of Oscillation Mode
in a Chaotic Optical Ring to Avoid Collision
Abstract:In an optical chaos system which consists of a nonlinear optical resonator, the delay induced
self-oscillation exhibits multiple oscillation modes whose peak modulation patterns
correspond to arbitrary bit sequences. Selection of oscillation mode, i.e. bit sequence, has been
performed with various configurations, such like direct injection of specific signals, or adaptive
feedback of the response signals. Recently, a novel method using adaptive chaotic phenomena
has been proposed and experimentally tested by Davis et al.[1,2]
The target of current work is to build on the idea of adaptive mode selection using
chaotic phenomena and propose a novel scheme for selection of output to avoid collisions with
other periodic signals. This has potential application, for example, in an intelligent optical node
which performs autonomous control of packet transmission schedules. An example of
application of such adaptive mode selection is shown in Fig. 1.