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Maria Bayard Dühring - Solid Mechanics

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Figure 3: The center region of the holey fiber where black indicates silica and white is air. (a) and<br />

(b): The contour lines show the distribution of the normalized energy measure from the objective<br />

function Φ/Φmax in the initial and the optimized design, respectively. (c) and (d): The normalized<br />

time average power flow P/Pmax in the x3-direction is indicated by the contour lines for the initial<br />

and the optimized design, respectively.<br />

connected, which is important due to fabrication issues. The design is almost symmetric around a<br />

vertical axis, which has not been enforced in the optimization. The small deviation from symmetry<br />

is most likely due to the unstructured mesh, which is not symmetric. Compared to the initial design<br />

the objective function in the optimized design has been redistributed, such that the modes shape is<br />

extending more in the vertical direction and the peak value in the center has increased. The time<br />

average power flow P in the x3-direction, normalized with the maximum value Pmax for the initial<br />

design, is plotted on figure 3(c) and 3(d) for the initial and the optimized design, respectively. The<br />

shape of the modes are in good agreement with the distribution of the energy measure from the<br />

objective function in figure 3(a) and 3(b), and their ratio of magnitude is also similar. Compared to<br />

the initial design the integral of P in Ωc has increased 378% for the optimized design. So the same<br />

improvement is obtained for Φ and P when Φ is used as the objective function.<br />

In order to explain that the objective function has increased, the absolute value of the magnetic<br />

fields H1 and H2 are considered. Both fields are symmetric around the vertical axis before and after<br />

the optimization and |H1|/|H1,max| is plotted with contour lines for the initial and optimized design<br />

in figure 4(a) and 4(b), respectively. |H1,max| is the maximum value of |H1| for the initial design.<br />

Like the distribution of the objective function, |H1| is confined by the vertical walls to the sides and<br />

is elongated in the vertical direction. In the initial design concentrations of |H1| are found where the<br />

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