WEAK-COUPLING EFFECTS ON DIODE RESONATORS

We investigate the dynamics of a coupled diode resonator system. New d ynamical behaviors are found: (i) Unstable orbits embedded in a chaoti c attractor are stabilized and maintained over a wide range of paramet er values with a generic accompaniment of hysteresis; and (ii) competi tion between the attractors when stabilized orbits are maintained over a stable window results in switching between the attractors of two st able states in the time domain.