Homoclinic chaos and its organization in a nonlinear optics model

Abstract: We developed a powerful computational approach to elaborate on onset mechanisms of deterministic chaos due to complex homoclinic bifurcations in diverse systems. Its core is the reduction of phase space dynamics to symbolic binary representations that lets one detect regions of simple and complex dynamics as well as fine organization structures of the latter in parameter space. Massively parallel simulations shorten the computational time to disclose highly detailed bifurcation diagrams to a few seconds.