Experimental Study of Parametric Autoresonance in Faraday Waves
  The excitation of large amplitude nonlinear waves is achieved via parametric autoresonance of Faraday waves. We experimentally demonstrate that phase locking to low amplitude driving can generate persistent high-amplitude growth of nonlinear waves in a dissipative system. The experiments presented are in excellent agreement with theory. 
Oded Ben-David, Michael Assaf, Jay Fineberg, and Baruch Meerson