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Title | ||
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Evolutionary design of single-mode microstructured polymer optical fibres using an artificial embryogeny representation |
Abstract | ||
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Polymer microstructured optical fibres are a relatively recent development in optical fibre technology, supporting a wide variety of microstructure fibre geometries, when compared to the more commonly used silica. In order to meet the automated design requirements for such complex fibres, a representation was developed which can describe radially symmetric microstructured fibres of different complexities; from simple hexagonal designs with very few holes, to large arrays of hundreds of holes. This representation uses an embryogeny, where the complex phenotype is 'grown' from a simpler genotype, and the resulting complexity is primarily a feature of the reuse of gene elements that describe the microstructure elements. Most importantly, the growth process results in the automatic satisfaction of manufacturing constraints. In conjunction with a multi-objective genetic algorithm, this formed a robust algorithm for the design of microstructured fibres for particular applications of interest. In this paper the algorithm is used to design one of the most common types of microstructured fibres - single-moded fibres. Various types of single-moded designs that have not been encountered in the literature were discovered, identifying new 'design themes'. One of the designs was subsequently manufactured, the details of which are included. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2007 | 10.1145/1274000.1274024 | GECCO (Companion) |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
radially symmetric microstructured fibre,design theme,polymer microstructured optical fibre,complex fibre,robust algorithm,microstructured fibre,evolutionary design,single-moded design,artificial embryogeny representation,microstructured polymer optical fibre,simple hexagonal design,automated design requirement,multi-objective genetic algorithm,artificial embryogeny,single mode,optical fibre,microstructures,single mode fibre,fibre,representation | Optical fiber,Mathematical optimization,Polymer,Reuse,Computer science,Artificial development,Hexagonal crystal system,Mechanical engineering,Single-mode optical fiber,Genetic algorithm | Conference |
Citations | PageRank | References |
4 | 0.46 | 4 |
Authors | ||
3 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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| Steven Manos | 1 | 26 | 3.77 |
| Maryanne C. J. Large | 2 | 4 | 0.46 |
| Leon Poladian | 3 | 16 | 2.72 |