title: Robust chirped mirrors.
abstract: Optimized chirped mirrors may perform suboptimally, or completely fail to satisfy specifications, when manufacturing errors are encountered. We present a robust optimization method for designing these dispersion-compensating mirror systems that are used in ultrashort pulse lasers. Possible implementation errors in layer thickness are taken into account within an uncertainty set. The algorithm identifies worst-case scenarios with respect to reflectivity as well as group delay. An iterative update improves the robustness and warrants a high manufacturing yield, even when the encountered errors are larger than anticipated.
authors.affiliation: Operations Research Center and Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. nohadani@mit.edu
authors.forename: Omid
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Nohadani
authors.forename: Jonathan R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Birge
authors.forename: Franz X
authors.initials: FX
authors.lastname: Kärtner
authors.forename: Dimitris J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Bertsimas