- X Zhang: Department of Optical Physics, Changchun Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Changchun 130022, China.
We present a simple and effective method for controlling spatiotemporal chaos (STC) via phase space compression, by compressing the evolution orbit of the chaotic attractor. In numerical simulations, we obtain global and local control in coupled map lattice (CML) systems by the same phase space compression in different situations, and find that the functional relationship of control results to control parameters in a certain region is the same as the local dynamics expression of the CML. According to the control equation, using different phase space compressions we successfully control a CML exhibiting STC into various desired stable states.