Abstract
We experimentally and numerically investigate consistency of response output in a Nd: YAG microchip laser driven repeatedly by chaos and colored noise with different bandwidths. An increase of consistency is observed as the amplitude, of the drive signal is increased for both chaos and colored noise drive signals. After reaching an optimal value the consistency begins to decrease due to the deterministic dynamics of the nonlinear response as shown by the change in sign of the conditional Lyapunov exponent.
