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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.
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Biedrzycki, R. et al. (2014). Application of Evolutionary Methods to Semiconductor Double-Chirped Mirrors Design. In: Bartz-Beielstein, T., Branke, J., Filipič, B., Smith, J. (eds) Parallel Problem Solving from Nature – PPSN XIII. PPSN 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8672. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10762-2_75
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