Experimental observation on the effect of coupling on different synchronization phenomena in coupled nonidentical Chua’s oscillators

Experimental results are presented on the effect of coupling on synchronization of two coupled nonidentical Chua’s oscillators. Two oscillators are coupled in unidirectional drive response mode. The driver is always kept in chaotic ~single scroll, double scroll! state while the response oscillator is kept in various dynamical states as point attractor, single scroll periodic, chaotic and double scroll. The strength of coupling plays a crucial role on synchronization between the coupled oscillators. With decreasing coupling strength, two routes of transitions, one route is through lag and intermittent lag synchronization and another one is through intermittency have been observed in single scroll cases. But the situations are slightly different when the driver is double scroll chaotic. Lag synchronization and intermittent lag synchronization regimes are present in double scroll situation, but an intermediate intermittency regime between ILS and PS has also been observed. © 2003 American Institute of Physics. @DOI: 10.1063/1.1544734#