Abstract
In this work, we extend further the analytical study of complex dynamics exist in two coupled logistic maps. New results about the occurrence of various types of bifurcation in the system, including flip bifurcation, pitchfork bifurcation and Neimark–Sacker bifurcation are presented. To the best of authors’ knowledge, the presence of chaotic dynamics in system’s behavior has been investigated and proved analytically via Marotto’s approach for first time. Numerical simulations are carried out in order to verify theoretical results. Furthermore, chaos based encryption algorithm for images is presented as an application for the coupled logistic maps. Different scenarios of attacks are considered to demonstrate its immunity and effectiveness against the possible attacks. Finally, a circuit realization for the coupled logistic maps is proposed and utilized in a suggested real time text encryption system.