Adaptive beam profile control using a simulated annealing algorithm

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 6085-6091

  El Agmy, R ^a   Bulte, H ^a   Greenaway, A H ^a   Reid, D T ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANNEALING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODES; MIRRORS;

ADAPTIVE BEAM PROFILE CONTROL; SIMULATED ANNEALING ALGORITHM; SUPER-GAUSSIAN BEAM PROFILES;

LASER BEAMS;

EID: 24044442257     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.006085     Document Type: Article

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