title: Control and synchronization of laser bursting and its implications in neuroscience.
abstract: We present experimental and numerical evidence of control and synchronization of burst events in modulated CO(2) lasers. Bursts appear randomly in each laser as trains of large amplitude spikes intercalated by a small amplitude chaotic regime. Experimental data and model display the frequency locking of bursts in a suitable interval of coupling strengths. The analogy with neuronal bursting will also be discussed in view of the role of bursting synchronization in cognitive functions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Università di Firenze, Florence, Italy.
authors.forename: F Tito
authors.initials: FT
authors.lastname: Arecchi
authors.forename: Riccardo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Meucci
authors.forename: Kais
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Al Naimee
authors.forename: Francesco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Salvadori
mesh_terms: D000200:Action Potentials / Q000502:physiology*; D000818:Animals; D004594:Electrophysiology / Q000379:methods; D007834:Lasers; D008959:Models, Neurological; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D009488:Neurosciences; D017711:Nonlinear Dynamics; D009991:Oscillometry / Q000379:methods