“…1, is about 10 5 , depending on the pump power. The probabilities of patterns 012 and 210 provide a measure of the persistence of the time-series, i.e., the probability that the sign of x i − x i−1 persists in the next step [11]. Thus, at the transition, if there are two consecutive peaks with increasing height, the next peak is likely to be larger than the previous one (and if there are two consecutive peaks with decreasing height, the next one is likely to be smaller than the previous one); on the contrary, in the sequence of time-intervals, two consecutive intervals that are increasingly long (∆T i < ∆T i+1 ) are likely to be followed by shorter interval (∆T i+1 > ∆T i+2 ), and two consecutive decreasing intervals (∆T i > ∆T i+1 ) are likely to be followed by a longer one (∆T i+1 < ∆T i+2 ).…”