Chaos is deterministic. The observation of Pecora and Carrol (from US Navy) that two chaotic systems can be synchronized has generated
tremendous interest in transmitting information from one location to
another using a wideband chaotic signal. The receiver contains a second
chaotic system that produces an identical chaotic signal but without the
encoded message, enabling the transmitted message to be extracted from the
chaos. First, message recovery relies on the ability of coupled chaotic
systems to synchronize or produce identical chaotic behavior. Second,
message encoding utilize chaos control or small perturbations to stabilize
one of the many unstable periodic behaviors typically displayed by chaotic
systems. In this talk, the speaker will discuss the application of chaos
in communication (especially, digital communication) and a modulation and
demodulation scheme for digital information. Two types of chaotic
oscillators will be considered: a discrete chaotic generator, described by
maps (for example, logistic map) and a continuous time generator described
by a system of differential equations (for example, nonlinear Chua's
electronic circuit).