Self-Tuning Fiber Lasers

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 464-471

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

adaptive control; fiber laser; Mode locked laser; self tuning

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; BALANCING; CONTROL THEORY; FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; LASER THEORY; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MACHINE LEARNING; PASSIVE MODE LOCKING;

ADAPTIVE CONTROL; ADAPTIVE CONTROLLERS; EXTREMUM SEEKING CONTROL; MODE-LOCKED LASER; NONLINEAR POLARIZATION ROTATION; SELF-TUNING ALGORITHMS; SELFTUNING; STATE IDENTIFICATION;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

EID: 84920891784     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: 15584542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2014.2336538     Document Type: Article

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