Print Email Facebook Twitter Topography of the merit function landscape in optical system design Title Topography of the merit function landscape in optical system design Author van Driel, E. Bociort, F. Serebriakov, A. Faculty Applied Sciences Department Optics Research Groep Date 2004-02-18 Abstract We have shown recently that, when certain quite general conditions are satisfied, the set of local minima in the optical merit function space forms a network where they are all connected through optimization paths generated from saddle points having a Morse index of 1. A new global optimization method, that makes use of this linking network to systematically detect all minima, is presented. The central component of this new method, the algorithm for saddle point detection, is described in detail and we show that the initialization of this algorithm has a significant impact on the performance. For a simple global optimization search (Cooke triplet) several representation forms of the network of the corresponding set of local minima are presented. These representations, which can be visualized in two dimensions, are independent of the dimensionality of the design space so that they can provide insight into the topography of merit function landscapes of arbitrary dimensionality. Subject global optimizationsaddle pointMorse indexnetworkoptical system design To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:440be13a-ffb8-4e24-aa39-1d52ad2a0d4b Publisher SPIE ISSN 0277-786X Source Proceedings of SPIE, 2004 vol. 5249 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c)2004 Van Driel, E., Bociort, F., Serebriakov, A. Files PDF TopographyDriel.pdf 591.12 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:440be13a-ffb8-4e24-aa39-1d52ad2a0d4b/datastream/OBJ/view