An evolutionary algorithm for the synthesis of oblique incidence optical coatings

Author

Yang, Jinn-Moon ; Kao, Cheng-Yan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Inf. Eng., Nat. Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan

Volume

4

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

2780

Abstract

This paper presents an evolutionary approach for the synthesis of oblique incidence optical thin-film designs. Based on family competition and adaptive rules, the proposed approach consists of global and local strategies by integrating decreasing mutations and self-adaptive mutations. The method is applied to a called heat reflector and a cold mirror in the region from 0.4 μm to 1.2 μm with the incidence angle 45°. The proposed approach generates binary-type solutions which are very close to the target specification. Experimental results show that; the proposed approach Is very flexible and performs very robustly

Keywords

evolutionary computation; mirrors; numerical stability; optical design techniques; optical films; thin films; 0.4 to 1.2 micron; adaptive rules; binary-type solutions; cold mirror; decreasing mutations; evolutionary approach; family competition; heat reflector; oblique incidence optical thin-film synthesis; self-adaptive mutations; target specification; Coatings; Evolutionary computation; Genetic algorithms; Genetic mutations; Mirrors; Optical design; Optical films; Optical sensors; Robustness; Transistors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Electronics Society, 2000. IECON 2000. 26th Annual Confjerence of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Nagoya

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6456-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IECON.2000.972438

Filename

972438