Nanophotonic computational design

Jesse Lu, Jelena Vučković
2013 Optics Express  
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
more » ... ition, 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 users desired performance specification for the device.
doi:10.1364/oe.21.013351 pmid:23736587 fatcat:dfx5w3komrhebpk7rgp5bk5g5i