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Topology optimization of dispersive plasmonic nanostructures in the time-domain
Umeå University, Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Applied Physics and Electronics. Hannover Centre for Optical Technologies, Institute for Transport and Automation Technology (Faculty of Mechanical Engineering), and Cluster of Excellence PhoenixD, Leibniz University Hannover, Hannover, Germany; Department of Electronics and Electrical Communications, Menoufia University, Menouf, Egypt.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1318-7519
Hannover Centre for Optical Technologies, Institute for Transport and Automation Technology (Faculty of Mechanical Engineering), and Cluster of Excellence PhoenixD, Leibniz University Hannover, 30167 Hannover, Germany.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9384-6245
2022 (English)In: Optics Express, E-ISSN 1094-4087, Vol. 30, no 11, p. 19557-19572Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Topology optimization techniques have been applied in integrated optics and nanophotonics for the inverse design of devices with shapes that cannot be conceived by human intuition. At optical frequencies, these techniques have only been utilized to optimize nondispersive materials using frequency-domain methods. However, a time-domain formulation is more efficient to optimize materials with dispersion. We introduce such a formulation for the Drude model, which is widely used to simulate the dispersive properties of metals, conductive oxides, and conductive polymers. Our topology optimization algorithm is based on the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method, and we introduce a time-domain sensitivity analysis that enables the evaluation of the gradient information by using one additional FDTD simulation. The existence of dielectric and metallic structures in the design space produces plasmonic field enhancement that causes convergence issues. We employ an artificial damping approach during the optimization iterations that, by reducing the plasmonic effects, solves the convergence problem. We present several design examples of 2D and 3D plasmonic nanoantennas with optimized field localization and enhancement in frequency bands of choice. Our method has the potential to speed up the design of wideband optical nanostructures made of dispersive materials for applications in nanoplasmonics, integrated optics, ultrafast photonics, and nonlinear optics.

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Optica Publishing Group , 2022. Vol. 30, no 11, p. 19557-19572
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plasmonics, nanostructures, optimization, wideband, large-scale optimization
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Other Physics Topics Nano Technology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-195281DOI: 10.1364/oe.458080ISI: 000799725400147Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85130641915OAI: oai:DiVA.org:umu-195281DiVA, id: diva2:1661265
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German Research Foundation (DFG), EXC 2122, Project ID 390833453Available from: 2022-05-26 Created: 2022-05-26 Last updated: 2023-09-05Bibliographically approved

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