Robust optimization of adiabatic tapers for coupling to slow-light photonic-crystal waveguides

Ardavan Oskooi; Almir Mutapcic; Susumu Noda; J. D. Joannopoulos; Stephen P. Boyd; Steven G. Johnson

doi:10.1364/OE.20.021558

Robust optimization of adiabatic tapers for coupling to slow-light photonic-crystal waveguides

Ardavan Oskooi, Almir Mutapcic, Susumu Noda, J. D. Joannopoulos, Stephen P. Boyd, and Steven G. Johnson

Optics Express
Vol. 20,
Issue 19,
pp. 21558-21575
(2012)
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Ardavan Oskooi, Almir Mutapcic, Susumu Noda, J. D. Joannopoulos, Stephen P. Boyd, and Steven G. Johnson, "Robust optimization of adiabatic tapers for coupling to slow-light photonic-crystal waveguides," Opt. Express 20, 21558-21575 (2012)

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- Original Manuscript: June 29, 2012
- Revised Manuscript: August 24, 2012
- Manuscript Accepted: August 25, 2012
- Published: September 5, 2012

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Abstract

We investigate the design of taper structures for coupling to slow-light modes of various photonic-crystal waveguides while taking into account parameter uncertainties inherent in practical fabrication. Our short-length (11 periods) robust tapers designed for λ = 1.55μm and a slow-light group velocity of c/34 have a total loss of < 20dB even in the presence of nanometer-scale surface roughness, which outperform the corresponding non-robust designs by an order of magnitude. We discover a posteriori that the robust designs have smooth profiles that can be parameterized by a few-term (intrinsically smooth) sine series which helps the optimization to further boost the performance slightly. We ground these numerical results in an analytical foundation by deriving the scaling relationships between taper length, taper smoothness, and group velocity with the help of an exact equivalence with Fourier analysis.

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2011 (5)

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2010 (5)

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2009 (3)

M. Ghebrebrhan, P. Bermel, Y. Avniel, J. D. Joannopoulos, and S. G. Johnson, “Global optimization of silicon photovoltaic cell front coatings,” Opt. Express 17, 7505–7518 (2009).
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2008 (6)

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[Crossref]

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2007 (6)

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[Crossref]

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[Crossref]

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[Crossref]

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[Crossref]

2006 (3)

N. Ikeda, Y. Sugimoto, Y. Watanabe, N. Ozaki, A. Mizutani, Y. Takata, J. Jensen, O. Sigmund, P. Borel, M. Kristensen, and K. Asakawa, “Topology optimised photonic crystal waveguide intersections with high-transmittance and low crosstalk,” Elec. Letters 42, 1031–1033 (2006).
[Crossref]

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[Crossref]

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[Crossref]

2005 (6)

P. Sanchis, J. Marti, W. Bogaerts, P. Dumon, D. V. Thourhout, and R. Baets, “Experimental results on adiabatic coupling into SOI photonic crystal coupled-cavity waveguides,” IEEE Photon. Tech. Letters 17, 1199–1201 (2005).
[Crossref]

W. Frei, D. Tortorelli, and H. Johnson, “Topology optimization of a photonic crystal waveguide termination to maximize directional emission,” Appl. Phys. Letters 86(111114) (2005).
[Crossref]

A. Håkansson, J. Sánchez-Dehesa, and L. Sanchis, “Inverse design of photonic crystal devices,” IEEE J. Selected Areas in Communications 23, 1365–1371 (2005).
[Crossref]

C. Kao, S. Osher, and E. Yablonovitch, “Maximizing band gaps in two-dimensional photonic crystals,” Appl. Phys. B 81, 235–244 (2005).
[Crossref]

M. Povinelli, S. Johnson, and J. Joannopoulos, “Slow-light, band-edge waveguides for tunable time delays,” Opt. Express 13(8), 7145–7159 (2005).
[Crossref] [PubMed]

E. Khoo, A. Liu, and J. Wu, “Nonuniform photonic crystal taper for high-efficiency mode coupling,” Opt. Express 13, 7748–7759 (2005).
[Crossref] [PubMed]

2004 (9)

M. L. Povinelli, S. G. Johnson, E. Lidorikis, J. D. Joannopoulos, and M. Soljačić, “Effect of a photonic band gap on scattering from waveguide disorder,” Appl. Phys. Letters 84, 3639–3641 (2004).
[Crossref]

S. Assefa, P. T. Rakich, P. Bienstman, S. G. Johnson, G. S. Petrich, J. D. Joannopoulos, L. A. Kolodziejski, E. P. Ippen, and H. I. Smith, “Guiding 1.5μm light in photonic crystals based on dielectric rods,” Appl. Phys. Letters 85, 6110–6112 (2004).
[Crossref]

E. Miyai and S. Noda, “Structural dependence of coupling between a two-dimensional photonic crystal waveguide and a wire waveguide,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 21, 67–72 (2004).
[Crossref]

P. Borel, A. Harpoth, L. Frandsen, M. Kristensen, P. Shi, J. Jensen, and O. Sigmund, “Topology optimization and fabrication of photonic crystal structures,” Opt. Express 12, 1996–2001 (2004).
[Crossref] [PubMed]

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[Crossref] [PubMed]

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Fig. 1 Schematic taper design problem, with a transition between two waveguides characterized by a dimensionless parameter s ∈ [0, 1]. The taper goes from a uniform dielectric waveguide (s = 0) to a periodic waveguide (s = 1), with 0 < s < 1 describing intermediate structures (e.g. s ∼ hole radius, flange width, or block spacing in the structures shown at right). A taper design (bottom) is a “shape” function s(z/L) (for z ∈ [0, L]) describing a continuous transition from s(0) = 0 to s(1) = 1. For optimization, we parameterize s by its values at uniformly spaced points and linearly interpolate in between (bottom left).

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Fig. 2 Comparison of coupled-mode theory (CMT) calculation of reflection coefficient from double taper (from uniform to periodic to uniform) structure, using a simple linear profile s(u) = u, with two other brute-force numerical methods, scattering matrix (CAMFR [46]) and finite-difference time-domain (FDTD [74]). (a) 2d period a 0.4a×0.4a blocks example (top left) with TM operating mode at v_g = c/4 [40, 43]. CMT and CAMFR agree well. (b) 2d period-a flanged waveguide (inner width a, outer width 2a, 50% duty cycle) with TE operating mode at v_g = c/34, adapted from Ref. 37 (top right). For such slow light, the scattering from a short linear taper is too large for CMT to be valid, but optimization of the taper shape will drive the reflections low enough for the CMT calculation to be suitable.

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Fig. 3 Optimization results for taper structure of square blocks (operating TM mode with v_g = c/4) from Fig. 2(a), with block spacing as the taper variable (top: linear tapers). (a) Performance of three tapers (linear in green, nominal optimum in blue, and robust optimum in red, with the optimizations performed independently at each length L) computed using a brute-force scattering-matrix method (CAMFR [46]) (with no disorder introduced). (b) Performance of nominal taper (optimized independently at each taper length) computed using two different methods (CMT and CAMFR)—the large disparity is due to the nominal optimum relying on a delicate interference cancellation that is destroyed even by the slight numerical differences between the two techniques. (c) Performance of linear, nominal, and robust tapers designed at L = 50a and then rescaled to other taper lengths: the nominal optimum relies on a delicate cancellation that only works close to L = 50a. Inset compares CMT and CAMFR for the L = 20a design rescaled to different lengths, and illustrates that the two approaches agree everywhere except at L = 20a, where there is a delicate interference cancellation that is inherently irreproducible (non-robust), and at small L where the reflection exceeds 10% (causing CMT to break down). (d) Nominal and robust taper profiles s(u) designed at L = 50a: the nominal design is only slightly different from a linear taper, with the slight changes (inset) sufficient to create a delicate reflection cancellation.

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Fig. 4 Optimization results for taper from uniform to flanged waveguide (operating TE mode with v_g = c/6) from Fig. 2(b), with flange (outer) width as the taper variable (top: linear tapers). (a) Performance of three tapers (linear in green, nominal optimum in blue, and robust optimum in red, with the optimizations performed independently at each length L) computed using a brute-force scattering-matrix method (CAMFR [46]), where surface roughness (±10⁻³a every 0.01a) was introduced, averaged over 50 structures. The robust optimum maintains good (∼ 30 dB) performance even in the presence of disorder, whereas the nominal optimum is greatly degraded. (b) Nominal and robust taper profiles designed at L = 13a (vertical axis exaggerated for clarity): the nominal design includes fine cusps (circled) absent from the robust design, whose apparent function is to introduce reflection cancellations (which are spoiled by disorder).

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Fig. 5 Optimization results for taper from uniform to flanged slow-light waveguide (operating TE mode with v_g = c/34) with flange (outer) width as the taper variable (top: linear tapers). (a) Performance of three tapers (linear in green, nominal in blue, and robust in red, with the optimizations performed independently at each length) computed using a brute-force scattering-matrix method (CAMFR [46]), where surface roughness (±10⁻³a every 0.01a) was introduced, averaged over 50 structures. (b) Same as (a) but with 1-transmission: the inclusion of radiative scattering loss eliminates the optimization-created dip (cancellation) in the reflection losses from (a). As in Fig. 4, the robust optimum greatly outperforms the nominal optimum in the presence of disorder. (c) Even without disorder, the nominal optimum performs poorly in CAMFR compared to CMT: the slight differences in simulation accuracy are enough to spoil the nominal optimum. (d) Same as (a) but with robust optimization using the original (1024-point) piecewise-linear (“tent function”) parameterization (red squares) compared to robust optimization using a sine-series parameterization (cyan) with 4, 16, and 64 terms: the latter is converging towards similar performance as the former, and towards similar structures as seen in Fig. 6, so the robust optimum is not merely a local minimum obtained as a byproduct of the discretization choice.

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Fig. 6 Linear, nominal, and robust-optimum taper profiles from the slow-light (c/34) optimization of Fig. 5, optimized at a taper length L = 13a. Vertical axes are exaggerated for scale; topmost (black) figure shows the robust taper design to scale. Even the robust design shows complicated sub-flange oscillations, but similar oscillations are reproduced independent of the parameterization of the taper design during optimization. Top middle (red): robust design using 1024-point linear interpolation (tent functions). Cyan (bottom/right): robust optimization using sine series with successive increase of the number of series terms. 64-term sine series structure (top right) is similar to tent-function (top middle) structure, and is superimposed on the latter as a dotted cyan curve. Nominal optimum (lower left) has even more radical oscillations, designed to create delicate reflection cancellations (which are spoiled by disorder).

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R_{min} (L) = min_{s \in 𝒮} max_{v \in 𝒱} R [s, v, L],

c_{r} = \int_{0}^{1} d u s^{'} (u) \sum_{k} \frac{M_{k} [s (u)]}{Δ β_{k} [s (u)]} e^{i L \int_{0}^{u} Δ β_{k} [s (u^{'})] d u^{'}} .

c_{r} = \int_{- \infty}^{\infty} d x s^{'} (u (x)) \frac{M_{k} [s (u (x))]}{Δ β_{k} {[s (u (x))]}^{2}} e^{i L x},