TY - JOUR A1 - Lepri, Stefano A1 - Pikovskij, Arkadij T1 - Nonreciprocal wave scattering on nonlinear string-coupled oscillators JF - Chaos : an interdisciplinary journal of nonlinear science N2 - We study scattering of a periodic wave in a string on two lumped oscillators attached to it. The equations can be represented as a driven (by the incident wave) dissipative (due to radiation losses) system of delay differential equations of neutral type. Nonlinearity of oscillators makes the scattering non-reciprocal: The same wave is transmitted differently in two directions. Periodic regimes of scattering are analyzed approximately, using amplitude equation approach. We show that this setup can act as a nonreciprocal modulator via Hopf bifurcations of the steady solutions. Numerical simulations of the full system reveal nontrivial regimes of quasiperiodic and chaotic scattering. Moreover, a regime of a "chaotic diode," where transmission is periodic in one direction and chaotic in the opposite one, is reported. (C) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC. Y1 - 2014 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4899205 SN - 1054-1500 SN - 1089-7682 VL - 24 IS - 4 PB - American Institute of Physics CY - Melville ER -