A Deep Reinforcement Learning Algorithm for Smart Control of Hysteresis Phenomena in a Mode-Locked Fiber Laser

Alexey Kokhanovskiy; Alexey Shevelev; Kirill Serebrennikov; Evgeny Kuprikov; Sergei K. Turitsyn

doi:10.3390/photonics9120921

A Deep Reinforcement Learning Algorithm for Smart Control of Hysteresis Phenomena in a Mode-Locked Fiber Laser

Alexey Kokhanovskiy^*
, Alexey Shevelev
, Kirill Serebrennikov
, Evgeny Kuprikov
, Sergei K. Turitsyn

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate the application of a double deep Q-learning network algorithm (DDQN) for design of a self-starting fiber mode-locked laser. In contrast to the static optimization of a system design, the DDQN reinforcement algorithm is capable of learning the strategy of dynamic adjustment of the cavity parameters. Here, we apply the DDQN algorithm for stable soliton generation in a fiber laser cavity exploiting a nonlinear polarization evolution mechanism. The algorithm learns the hysteresis phenomena that manifest themselves as different pumping-power thresholds for mode-locked regimes for diverse trajectories of adjusting optical pumping.

Original language	English
Article number	921
Number of pages	7
Journal	Photonics
Volume	9
Issue number	12
Early online date	30 Nov 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics9120921
Publication status	Published - Dec 2022

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Data underlying the results presented in this paper are not publicly available at this time but may be obtained from the authors upon reasonable request.

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This work was supported by the Russian Science Foundation (Grant No. 17-72-30006-P).

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fibre mode-locked lasers
reinforcement learning
hysteresis phenomena

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