Optoelectronic oscillators (OEOs) are hybrid RF-photonic devices that promise to be environmentally robust high-frequency RF sources with very low phase noise. Previously, we showed that Rayleigh-scattering-induced noise in optical fibers coupled with amplitude-to-phase noise conversion in photodetectors and amplifiers leads to fiber-length-dependent noise in OEOs. In this work, we report on tw...

This paper presents a signal-to-noise perspective of the search process in genetic algorithms. First we pose a decision problem in terms of multiple 2-armed, mutually dependent bandits. This presents a theoretical framework for understanding stochastic search techniques in general. The deterministic and nondeterministic e ects on the convolution kernel associated with the bandits are identi ed ...