Classification of birefringence in mode-locked fiber lasers using machine learning and sparse representation

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 8585-8597

  Fu, Xing ^a   Brunton, Steven L ^a   Kutz, J Nathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LOCKS (FASTENERS); OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTIMIZATION;

ANGULAR FREQUENCIES; NOISY MEASUREMENTS; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; OPTIMAL POSITION; POLARIZER ANGLE; SEARCH ALGORITHMS; SPARSE REPRESENTATION; TEST MEASUREMENTS;

BIREFRINGENCE;

EID: 84898645108     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.008585     Document Type: Article

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