Maria Bayard Dühring - Solid Mechanics
Maria Bayard Dühring - Solid Mechanics
Maria Bayard Dühring - Solid Mechanics
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Table 2: Refractive index and strain-optical constants for the materials used in the optical model.<br />
Material n0 p11, p22, p33 p12, p13, p23 p44, p55, p66<br />
[-] [10 −12 Pa −1 ] [10 −12 Pa −1 ] [10 −12 Pa −1 ]<br />
GaAs 3.545 -0.165 -0.14 -0.072<br />
AlGaAs 3.394 -0.165 -0.14 -0.072<br />
Figure 2: The optimized design below the waveguide. Black color represents solid material and white<br />
color represents air.<br />
The objective function Φ is then maximized in the output domain Ωop by distributing air and solid<br />
material in the design domain Ωd where solid material refers to AlGaAs in the upper part of Ωd and<br />
GaAs in the lower part. The filter radius is rmin = 2.5e2, an absolute tolerance of 0.01 on the maximum<br />
change of the design variables is used to terminate the optimization loop and a move limit for the design<br />
variables equal to 0.2 is used. The optimized design was found in 692 iterations and the logarithm to the<br />
objective function was increased to -17.39 - i.e. more than 2 orders of magnitude. Figure 2 shows the<br />
optimized design where black represents solid material and white represents air. The design is almost a<br />
pure black and white design and compared to the initial design air holes around the design domain have<br />
appeared. On Figure 3 the distribution of Φ normalized with √ P is plotted close to the waveguide for<br />
the original design and the optimized design, respectively, together with the air holes represented with<br />
white color. It is seen that in comparison to the initial design the redistributed material in the design<br />
domain is influencing Φ such that it has a higher value in the output domain Ωo. This happens because<br />
the SAW gets trapped in the design and output domain because of reflections at the air holes. An air<br />
hole is created just below the output domain, which is creating some strain concentrations that are also<br />
extending to the output domain such that the strain here is increased. When solving the optical model<br />
for the optimized design the acousto-optical interaction is found to be ∆neff,1/ (P ) = 1.480·10 −4 , which<br />
is 9.9 times higher than for the initial design. As the fundamental optical mode is polarized in the x1direction<br />
it is important that the change in n11 is as big as possible and ∆n11/ √ P is plotted for the initial<br />
design and the optimized design in Figure 4. The change in n11/ √ P is an order of magnitude bigger for<br />
the optimized design compared to the initial design, which explains that ∆neff,1/ √ P has increased. In<br />
Figure 4 the optical mode is indicated with contour lines and it is seen that the mode is confined to the<br />
waveguide both before and after the optimization. It is observed that a side benefit of the optimization<br />
is that the optical mode tends to get more confined to the output domain because of the big contrast in<br />
refractive index at the air hole next to the output domain.<br />
This example shows that it is possible to improve the acousto-optical interaction between a SAW and<br />
an optical wave in a waveguide by topology optimization where the objective function is based only on<br />
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