TY - JOUR SP - 5563 Y1 - 2020/10/15/ EP - 5573 N1 - This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher?s terms and conditions. IS - 20 VL - 38 A1 - Parsonson, CWF A1 - Shabka, Z A1 - Chlupka, WK A1 - Goh, B A1 - Zervas, G JF - Journal of Lightwave Technology UR - https://doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2020.3004645 PB - IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC N2 - Novel approaches to switching ultra-fast semiconductor optical amplifiers using artificial intelligence algorithms (particle swarm optimisation, ant colony optimisation, and a genetic algorithm) are developed and applied both in simulation and experiment. Effective off-on switching (settling) times of 542 ps are demonstrated with just 4.8% overshoot, achieving an order of magnitude improvement over previous attempts described in the literature and standard dampening techniques from control theory. AV - public KW - Ant colony optimisation KW - artificial intelligence KW - data centre networks KW - genetic algorithm KW - optical interconnects KW - optical networks KW - optical switching KW - particle swarm optimisation KW - semiconductor optical amplifiers ID - discovery10113485 TI - Optimal Control of SOAs With Artificial Intelligence for Sub-Nanosecond Optical Switching ER -