Effects of the nature of the starting population on the properties of rugate filters designed with the genetic algorithm

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 853-859

  Swart, Pieter L ^{a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j}   Kotzé, Abraham P ^a   Lacquet, Beatrys M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d Université Laval   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^f Sensors Sources Sign Proc Res G   (South Africa)

^g Centre for Optical Communications   (South Africa)

^h CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^j Foundation for Professional Development   (South Africa)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME MANIPULATION; FOURIER FILTER; INVERSE FOURIER TRANSFORM POPULATION; RANDOM FILTER; RANDOM POPULATION; RANDOM STARTING POPULATION;

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTIMIZATION; RANDOM PROCESSES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

OPTICAL FILTERS;

EID: 0033684364     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.848398     Document Type: Article

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