Time-delay properties of a stochastic-resonance information transmission line

In this paper we analyze the properties of a chain of forward-coupled bi-stable over-damped oscillators. It is well known that this system displays stochastic resonance and behaves as a transmission line when an adequate amount of noise is added to each oscillator, and the first oscillator is driven...

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Autores principales: IbÁÑez, S.A., Fendrik, A., Fierens, P.I., Perazzo, R.P.J., Grosz, D.F.
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Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_02194775_v8_n3-4_pL315_IbANez
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Sumario:In this paper we analyze the properties of a chain of forward-coupled bi-stable over-damped oscillators. It is well known that this system displays stochastic resonance and behaves as a transmission line when an adequate amount of noise is added to each oscillator, and the first oscillator is driven by a periodic (sine) modulating signal. By driving the first oscillator with a modulated sequence of random non-return-to-zero (NRZ) bits, we start by showing that the system exhibits a stochastic-resonance behavior. Then we show that bit delays can be adjusted by either changing the amount of noise and/or the coupling intensity between adjacent oscillators. We find that the system can be regarded as a tunable delay line for a broad range of noise and coupling parameters, a feature that may find applications in information processing and bit regeneration. © 2008 World Scientific Publishing Company.