Phys. Rev. E 76, 021705 (2007) [5 pages]Light-driven liquid-crystalline nonlinear oscillator under optical periodic forcingReceived 6 March 2007; revised 2 May 2007; published 20 August 2007 An all-optically driven strategy to govern a liquid-crystalline collective molecular nonlinear oscillator is discussed. It does not require external feedback of any kind while the oscillator and a time-dependent perturbation both are sustained by incident light. Various dynamical regimes such as frequency-locked, quasiperiodic, forced, and chaotic are observed, in agreement with a theoretical approach developed in the limit of the plane-wave approximation. © 2007 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.76.021705
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevE.76.021705
PACS:
42.70.Df, 05.45.−a, 42.65.Sf
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