Abstract

We present experimental results obtained with an acoustooptic bistable device described by the differential-difference equation: where µ is the dynamical parameter, τ_d is the time delay and τ the response time. We will describe the time evolution of X(t) by constructing a 3-D phase space with the variables X(t), X(t-τ_d ) and X(t-2τ_d). The figure 1 shows a projection of the attractor of the system onto the plane defined by X(t-τ_d) and X(t) for τ_d / τ = 6 and µ = 1.05.

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