Nanophotonic computational design
- 24 May 2013
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Express
- Vol. 21 (11), 13351-13367
- https://doi.org/10.1364/oe.21.013351
Abstract
In contrast to designing nanophotonic devices by tuning a handful of device parameters, we have developed a computational method which utilizes the full parameter space to design linear nanophotonic devices. We show that our method may indeed be capable of designing any linear nanophotonic device by demonstrating designed structures which are fully three-dimensional and multi-modal, exhibit novel functionality, have very compact footprints, exhibit high efficiency, and are manufacturable. In addition, we also demonstrate the ability to produce structures which are strongly robust to wavelength and temperature shift, as well as fabrication error. Critically, we show that our method does not require the user to be a nanophotonic expert or to perform any manual tuning. Instead, we are able to design devices solely based on the user’s desired performance specification for the device.Keywords
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