Phys. Rev. E 49, 5863 - 5866 (1994)Characterization of the attractor governing the neon bulb RC relaxation oscillator |
M. L. Petrani, Ch. Karakotsou, I. M. Kyprianidis, and A. N. Anagnostopoulos
3rd Laboratory of Physics, Physics Department, University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki 54006, Greece
1st Laboratory of Physics, Physics Department, University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki 54006, Greece
Received 19 November 1993
The sinusoidally driven neon bulb RC relaxation oscillator has been studied experimentally and its chaotic behavior has been verified. For certain values of the control parameters C (capacitance) and fs (driving frequency) the observed response signal is nonperiodic. Calculation of the generalized dimensions shows that the system follows the quasiperiodicity route to chaos.
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URL: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRE/v49/p5863
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.49.5863
PACS: 05.45.+b, 84.20.+m, 84.30.Ng, 85.10.Rg
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