Machine Learning Methods for Control of Fibre Lasers with Double Gain Nonlinear Loop Mirror

Abstract

Many types of modern lasers feature nonlinear properties, which makes controlling their operation a challenging engineering problem. In particular, fibre lasers present both high-performance devices that are already used for diverse industrial applications, but also interesting and not yet fully understood nonlinear systems. Fibre laser systems operating at high power often have multiple equilibrium states, and this produces complications with the reproducibility and management of such devices. Self-tuning and feedback-enabled machine learning approaches might define a new era in laser science and technology. The present study is the first to demonstrate experimentally the application of machine learning algorithms for control of the pulsed regimes in an all-normal dispersion, figure-eight fibre laser with two independent amplifying fibre loops. The ability to control the laser operation state by electronically varying two drive currents makes this scheme particularly attractive for implementing machine learning approaches. The self-tuning adjustment of two independent gain levels in the laser cavity enables generation-on-demand pulses with different duration, energy, spectral characteristics and time coherence. We introduce and evaluate the application of several objective functions related to selection of the pulse duration, energy and degree of temporal coherence of the radiation. Our results open up the possibility for new designs of pulsed fibre lasers with robust electronics-managed control.

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-39759-1
Divisions: College of Engineering & Physical Sciences > Aston Institute of Photonics Technology (AIPT)
College of Engineering & Physical Sciences > Systems analytics research institute (SARI)
Funding Information: This work was supported by the Russian Science Foundation (Grant No. 17-72-30006).
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Uncontrolled Keywords: General
Publication ISSN: 2045-2322
Last Modified: 25 Mar 2024 08:31
Date Deposited: 18 Mar 2019 10:36
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PURE Output Type: Article
Published Date: 2019-02-27
Accepted Date: 2019-01-31
Authors: Kokhanovskiy, Alexey
Ivanenko, Aleksey
Kobtsev, Sergey
Smirnov, Sergey
Turitsyn, Sergey (ORCID Profile 0000-0003-0101-3834)

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