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Application of Evolutionary Methods to Semiconductor Double-Chirped Mirrors Design
Rafa
Biedrzycki1, Jarosaw Arabas1, Agata Jasik2, Micha Szyma
ski2, Pawe Wnuk3, Piotr Wasylczyk3, and Anna Wójcik-Jedliska2
1Institute of Electronic Systems, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
rbiedrzy@elka.pw.edu.pl
jarabas@elka.pw.edu.pl
2Institute of Electron Technology, Warsaw, Poland
ajasik@ite.waw.pl
mszyman@ite.waw.pl
awojcik@ite.waw.pl
3Faculty of Physics, Institute of Experimental Physics, University of Warsaw, Poland
Pawel.Wnuk@fuw.edu.pl
Piotr.Wasylczyk@fuw.edu.pl
Abstract. This paper reports on a successful application of evolutionary computation techniques to the computer aided design of a dedicated highly dispersive mirror which is used in an ultrafast laser. The mirror is a GaAs plate coated with many interleaving layers of GaAs/AlAs and SiO2/Si3N4 layers whose thickness undergo optimization. We report and compare results obtained by leading global optimization techniques: Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolution Strategy and Differential Evolution, as well as few efficient local optimization methods: Nelder-Mead and variable metric. The evolutionary designed mirror has been manufactured by the Molecular Beam Epitaxy technology and the measurements confirmed successful implementation of the instrument.
Keywords: CMA-ES, Differential Evolution, Double Chirped Mirror
LNCS 8672, p. 761 ff.
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