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Ikeda Map

Nonlinear optics model producing stunning spiral attractors from laser cavity dynamics

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Ikeda Map Visualization

Canonical Ikeda attractor (u=0.9); spiral strange attractor, lambda1 ~ +0.51

Parameters:

a = 0.90

b = 0.90

c = 0.40

d = 6.00

Equations:

t = c - d/(1 + x² + y²)

x' = 1 + a·(x·cos(t) - y·sin(t))

y' = b·(x·sin(t) + y·cos(t))