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In physics, the Toda oscillator is a special kind of nonlinear oscillator. It represents a chain of particles with exponential potential interaction between neighbors.[1] These concepts are named after Morikazu Toda. The Toda oscillator is used as a simple model to understand the phenomenon of self-pulsation, which is a quasi-periodic pulsation of the output intensity of a solid-state laser in the transient regime.
- ^ Toda, M. (1975). "Studies of a non-linear lattice". Physics Reports. 18 (1): 1. Bibcode:1975PhR....18....1T. doi:10.1016/0370-1573(75)90018-6.