A recently introduced tool for the analysis of turbulence, wavelet bicoherence [van Milligen, Hidalgo, and Sánchez, Phys. Rev. Lett. 16, 395 (1995)], is investigated. It is capable of detecting phase coupling—nonlinear interactions of the lowest (quadratic) order—with time resolution. To demonstrate its potential, it is applied to numerical models of chaos and turbulence and to real measurements. It detected the coupling interaction between two coupled van der Pol oscillators. When applied to a model of drift wave turbulence relevant to plasma physics, it detected a highly localized coherent structure. Analyzing reflectometry measurements made in fusion plasmas, it detected temporal intermittency and a strong increase in nonlinear phase coupling coinciding with the L/H (low‐to‐high confinement mode) transition.
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