Issue |
Eur. Phys. J. Appl. Phys.
Volume 31, Number 1, July 2005
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Page(s) | 71 - 76 | |
Section | Instrumentation and Metrology | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjap:2005042 | |
Published online | 21 June 2005 |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjap:2005042
Estimation of local error by a neural model in an inverse scattering problem
1
Laboratoire Dispositifs et Instrumentation pour l'Opto-électronique
et Micro-ondes, EA 3526, 23 rue du Docteur Paul Michelon, 42023 Saint-Etienne
Cedex 2, France
2
Laboratoire Traitement du Signal et Instrumentation, UMR CNRS 5516,
10 rue Barrouin, 42000 Saint-Etienne, France
3
Laboratoire d'Océanographie Dynamique et de Climatologie, UMR
CNRS 7617, 4 place Jussieu, 75005 Paris, France
4
Centre de Recherche en Informatique du CNAN, 292 rue Saint Martin, 75141 Paris Cedex 03, France
Corresponding author: stephane.robert@univ-st-etienne.fr
Received:
20
October
2004
Revised:
15
March
2005
Accepted:
12
April
2005
Published online:
21
June
2005
Characterization of optical gratings by resolution of inverse scattering
problem has become a widely used tool. Indeed, it is known as a
non-destructive, rapid and non-invasive method in opposition with
microscopic characterizations. Use of a neural model is generally
implemented and has shown better results by comparison with other regression
methods. The neural network learns the relationship between the optical
signature and the corresponding profile shape. The performance of such a
non-linear regression method is usually estimated by the root mean square
error calculated on a data set not involved in the training process.
However, this error estimation is not very significant and tends to flatten
the error in the different areas of variable space. We introduce, in this
paper, the calculation of local error for each geometrical parameter
representing the profile shape. For this purpose a second neural network is
implemented to learn the variance of results obtained by the first one. A
comparison with the root mean square error confirms a gain of local
precision. Finally, the method is applied in the optical characterization of
a semi-conductor grating with a 1 m period.
PACS: 42.25.Fx – Diffraction and scattering / 42.79.Dj – Gratings / 06.20.Dk – Measurement and error theory / 02.30.Zz – Inverse problems / 07.05.Mh – Neural networks, fuzzy logic, artificial intelligence
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