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Design of slow-light-enhanced bimodal interferometers using dimensionality reduction techniques.
Optics Express
|November 23, 2021
Summary
We developed a new method to design compact slow-light interferometers. This approach reduces design complexity, enabling highly sensitive photonic sensors and modulators.
Area of Science:
- Photonics
- Optical Engineering
- Materials Science
Background:
- Traditional interferometers require large footprints, limiting miniaturization.
- Slow-light interferometers offer enhanced compactness and sensitivity but are difficult to optimize.
- High-dimensional design spaces in photonic devices pose significant optimization challenges.
Purpose of the Study:
- To propose a computationally efficient method for designing slow-light-enhanced bimodal interferometers.
- To reduce the complexity of optimizing slow-light interferometer designs.
- To enable the development of compact and highly sensitive photonic devices.
Main Methods:
- Utilized principal component analysis (PCA) to reduce the high-dimensional design space of interferometers.
- Investigated a low-dimensional hyperplane representing optimized designs.
- Analyzed the impact of silicon core and cladding refractive index variations.
Main Results:
- Successfully designed all-dielectric single-channel interferometers with a 33 µm² footprint.
- Achieved high sensitivity values of 19.2 × 10³ 2πrad/RIU·cm for sensors.
- Validated designs using two distinct simulation methods.
Conclusions:
- Principal component analysis effectively simplifies the design and optimization of slow-light interferometers.
- The proposed method facilitates the creation of miniaturized photonic devices for modulation and sensing.
- This approach is extendable to the optimization of other photonic structures.
