Automatic waveguide-fiber coupling system based on a multiobjective evolutionary algorithm

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 30, 2007, Pages 7452-7459

  Sui, Guorong ^a   Chen, Baoxue ^a   Zhang, Xiaowei ^a   Zhou, Jianzhong ^a   Fu, Changsong ^a   Iso, Mamoru ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHANGHAI FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; CHANNEL ESTIMATION; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

CHANNEL WAVEGUIDE; WAVEGUIDE ALIGNMENT;

WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE PROCESSING; OPTICS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OPTICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED;

EID: 37549063379     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.007452     Document Type: Article

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