Automated design of photonic devices
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Integrated photonic devices are poised to play a key role in a wide variety of applications, ranging from optical interconnects and sensors to quantum computing. Design methods for photonics, however, lag far behind other areas such as digital electronics and aerospace vehicles. Photonic devices are largely designed by hand using a combination of semi-analytic theory and brute-force parameter sweeps, and as a result only a small library of devices is currently known. In this dissertion, I discuss our recent efforts to automate the design of photonic devices. In particular, we have developed an automated design method that explores the full design space of fabricable devices. This has allowed us to design devices with previously unattainable functionalities, performance, fabrication robustness, and compact footprints. Using this method, we designed, fabricated, and experimentally demonstrated a wide variety of passive silicon photonics devices. These include a wavelength splitting grating coupler, compact waveguide-coupled wavelength splitters, and a 3-way power splitter. The design methods we have introduced have the potential to both revolutionize the integrated photonics industry, and open new avenues of research for photonics.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2018; ©2018 |
| Publication date | 2018; 2018 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Piggott, Alexander Y |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Vuckovic, Jelena |
| Thesis advisor | Vuckovic, Jelena |
| Thesis advisor | Fan, Shanhui, 1972- |
| Thesis advisor | Miller, D. A. B |
| Degree committee member | Fan, Shanhui, 1972- |
| Degree committee member | Miller, D. A. B |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Electrical Engineering. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Alexander Y. Piggott. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Electrical Engineering. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2018. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2018 by Alexander Yukio Piggott
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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