Gaining Insights into Laser Pulse Shaping by Evolution Strategies

We consider the numerical evolutionaryoptimization of dynamic molecular alignment by shaped femtosecond laser pulses. We study a simplified model of this quantum controlproblem, which allows the full physical investigation of the optimal solutions. By using specific variants of Derandomized Evolution Strategies, subject to parameterizations which are known to be superior for this problem, the numerical results reveal different conceptual physics structuresfor the different optimization procedures. These results are strong both from the algorithmic as well as from the physics perspectives. This shows that Natural Computingtechniques can be used to derive new insights into Physics.

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