Analysis of synchronization phenomena of a pulse-coupled network of two chaotic integrated-and-fire circuits

摘要

We consider a master-slave pulse-coupled network of chaotic integrate-and-fire circuits. The master has a periodic input and can output various periodic and chaotic pulse-trains. The output pulse-train of the master is input to the slave. The slave repeats two kinds of firings: caused by its own threshold and caused by the firing of the master. As a result, the network exhibits various synchronization phenomena. We classify the phenomena based on a ratio of the two kinds of the firings. In order to analyze the phenomena exactly, we derive a 1-D returnmap.