Photonic cavity design by topology optimization

Rasmus E. Christiansen*, Fengwen Wang, Jesper Mørk, Ole Sigmund

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    Abstract

    This study considers a recently proposed topology optimization based approach for designing photonic membrane cavities supporting a dipole cavity mode. Foremost, the study demonstrates that the approach is robust towards the choice of initial guess provided for the optimization problem, in the sense that near identical final designs are obtained for vastly different initial guesses. This finding suggests that the final designs are near-optimal under the given design constraints. Secondarily, by stopping the design procedure after the same fixed number of design iterations for all initial guesses, it shows that the designed photonic cavity is sensitive towards certain small perturbations of their geometry, stressing the need for utilizing robust optimization techniques and imposing fabrication conforming length-scales in the cavity geometries.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings of SPIE - Nanoengineering: Fabrication, Properties, Optics, Thin Films, and Devices XVI
    EditorsBalaji Panchapakesan, André-Jean Attias
    Number of pages7
    Volume1189
    PublisherSPIE - International Society for Optical Engineering
    Publication date2019
    Article number110890A
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2019
    EventSPIE Nanoscience + Engineering 2019 - San Diego, United States
    Duration: 11 Aug 201915 Aug 2019

    Conference

    ConferenceSPIE Nanoscience + Engineering 2019
    Country/TerritoryUnited States
    CitySan Diego
    Period11/08/201915/08/2019
    SponsorSPIE
    SeriesProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
    ISSN0277-786X

    Keywords

    • Purcell factor
    • Cavities
    • Quality factor
    • Resonators
    • Manufacturing resolution
    • Topology optimization
    • Inverse problems

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