Influence of Mach-Zehnder modulator bias point on chaotic dynamics in spin-wave optoelectronic oscillator

Abstract In this paper we investigate in details the scenario of a transition to chaos in the spin-wave optoelectronic oscillator. The feature of the investigated circuit is the presence of two nonlinearities with different nature – modulation instability of spin waves and nonlinearity of the transmission characteristic of the electro-optical modulator. The influence of a position of the modulator bias point on the scenario of chaos development is experimentally investigated.