Title
Design of a compact CMOS-compatible photonic antenna by topological optimization
Date Issued
05 February 2018
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Pita J.N.L.
Aldaya I.
Dainese P.
Gabrielli L.H.
Universidad Estatal de Campinas
Publisher(s)
OSA - The Optical Society
Abstract
Photonic antennas are critical in applications such as spectroscopy, photovoltaics, optical communications, holography, and sensors. In most of those applications, metallic antennas have been employed due to their reduced sizes. Nevertheless, compact metallic antennas su er from high dissipative loss, wavelength-dependent radiation pattern, and they are di cult to integrate with CMOS technology. All-dielectric antennas have been proposed to overcome those disadvantages because, in contrast to metallic ones, they are CMOS-compatible, easier to integrate with typical silicon waveguides, and they generally present a broader wavelength range of operation. These advantages are achieved, however, at the expense of larger footprints that prevent dense integration and their use in massive phased arrays. In order to overcome this drawback, we employ topological optimization to design an all-dielectric compact antenna with vertical emission over a broad wavelength range. The fabricated device has a footprint of 1.78 µm × 1.78 µm and shows a shift in the direction of its main radiation lobe of only 4° over wavelengths ranging from 1470 nm to 1550 nm and a coupling e ciency bandwidth broader than 150 nm.
Start page
2435
End page
2442
Volume
26
Issue
3
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería de sistemas y comunicaciones Ingeniería eléctrica, Ingeniería electrónica
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85041477471
PubMed ID
Source
Optics Express
ISSN of the container
10944087
Sponsor(s)
National Council for the Improvement of Higher Education (CAPES); the State of São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) (2008/57857-2, 2013/20180-3, 2015/04113-0, 2015/24517-8, and 2016/19270-6); National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) (574017/2008-9, 465757/2014-6, 446746/2014-2, and 312110/2016-2). The authors thank M. S. Faria for assisting with the high-performance computation.
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