Robust design of slow-light tapers in periodic waveguides

Engineering Optimization

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 365-384

  Mutapcic, Almir ^a   Boyd, Stephen ^a   Farjadpour, Ardavan ^b   Johnson, Steven G ^b   Avniel, Yehuda ^b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

Author keywords

Coupling taper; PDE constrained optimization; Periodic waveguide; Photonics; Robust optimization; Shape optimization; Slow light

Indexed keywords

COUPLING POWER; FAST METHODS; HIGH YIELD; OPTIMIZATION METHOD; PARAMETER VARIATION; PDE-CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; PERIODIC WAVEGUIDE; PERIODIC WAVEGUIDES; REFLECTION COEFFICIENTS; ROBUST DESIGNS; ROBUST OPTIMIZATION; ROBUST PERFORMANCE; SLOW-LIGHT; SUCCESSIVE REFINEMENT; UNCERTAIN PARAMETERS;

AIRCRAFT ENGINES; DESIGN; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; REFLECTION; SET THEORY; SHAPE OPTIMIZATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WAVEGUIDES;

CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 66849135843     PISSN: 0305215X     EISSN: 10290273     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03052150802576797     Document Type: Article

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