van der Pol oscillator; Bernoulli doubling map; Smale–Williams solenoid; hyperbolic chaos.

CHAOS IN THE PHASE DYNAMICS OF Q­SWITCHED VAN DER POL OSCILLATOR WITH ADDITIONAL DELAYED FEEDBACK LOOP

We present chaos generator based on a van der Pol oscillator with two additional delayed feedback loops. Oscillator alternately enters active and silence stages due to periodic variation of the parameter responsible for the Andronov–Hopf bifurcation. Excitation of the oscillations on each new activity stage is forced by signal resulting from mixing of the first and the second harmonics of signals from previous activity stages, transported through the feedback loops.