Optimal control theory for optical waveguide design: application to Y-branch structures.
A recently introduced optimal control theory method for optical waveguide design is applied to Y-branch waveguides and Mach-Zehnder modulators. The method simultaneously optimizes many parameters in a chosen design scheme; computational effort scales mildly with the number of parameters considered. Significant improvement in guiding efficiency relative to intuitively reasonable initial parameter choices is obtained in all cases.
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Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA.
Coalson
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RD
Hernández
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MI
Campos-Martínez
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