Shape Optimization for Passive Mid-IR Photonic Components

Alain Gliere (1) , Nicolas Lebbe (1) , Karim Hassan (1) , Charles Dapogny (2) , Edouard Oudet (2)

1 CEA-LETI - Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives - Laboratoire d'Electronique et de Technologie de l'Information
2 CVGI - Calcul des Variations, Géométrie, Image

Shape optimization techniques were first developed in the context of mechanical engineering and, quite recently, applied to photonic components for data communication. Here, motivated by the growing application potential of mid-IR photonics driven by chemical sensing and spectroscopy, we present the design by shape optimization of passive components operating in this wavelength range.

Keywords: Shape; Optimization; Photonics; Optical waveguides; Silicon; Fabrication; Silicon germanium

Domains: Engineering Sciences [physics]

Alain Gliere, Nicolas Lebbe, Karim Hassan, Charles Dapogny, Edouard Oudet. Shape Optimization for Passive Mid-IR Photonic Components. 2018 International Conference on Numerical Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices (NUSOD), Nov 2018, Hong Kong, China. pp.81-82, ⟨10.1109/NUSOD.2018.8570285⟩. ⟨cea-02184666⟩