Higher-Order Spectral Analysis to Detect Power-Frequency Mechanisms in a Driven Chua's Circuit

Abstract

Higher-order spectra have been used to investigate nonlinear interactions between frequency modes in a driven Chua's circuit. The spectra show that an energy transfer takes place to the dominant frequencies in the circuit, i.e. the input frequency, the primary peak frequency and the harmonics of both frequencies. Other frequencies couplings become less important. Obviously, powers are (nonlinearly) related at different frequencies. When the circuit undergoes a period doubling sequence to chaos, the gain is increasing.