Autonomous bursting in a homoclinic system

Phys Rev Lett. 2002 Apr 8;88(14):144101. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.144101. Epub 2002 Mar 22.

Abstract

The output of a dynamical system in a regime of homoclinic chaos transforms from a continuous train of irregularly spaced spikes to clusters of regularly spaced spikes with quiescent periods in between (bursting), provided a low frequency portion of the output is fed back. We provide experimental evidence of such an autonomous bursting by a CO2 laser with feedback. The phenomena here presented are extremely robust against noise and display qualitative analogies with bursting phenomena in neurons.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Action Potentials
  • Feedback
  • Lasers
  • Models, Biological*
  • Neurons / physiology*