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JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA B-OPTICAL PHYSICS
Volume 39, Issue 1, Pages 83-91Publisher
Optica Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.438514
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [231447078]
- Cluster of Excellence ML4Q [EXC2004/1-390534769]
- Bundesministerium fur Bildung und Forschung [13N14150]
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Optical traveling wave antennas, made from low-loss dielectric materials, have been numerically optimized for directivity using particle swarm optimization algorithm. The optimized antennas exhibit highly directional emissions and robust performance, making them excellent candidates for optical communication and sensing applications.
Optical traveling wave antennas offer unique opportunities to control and selectively guide light into a specific direction, which renders them excellent candidates for optical communication and sensing. These applications require state-of-the-art engineering to reach optimized functionalities such as high directivity and radiation efficiency, low sidelobe levels, broadband and tunable capabilities, and compact design. In this work, we report on the numerical optimization of the directivity of optical traveling wave antennas made from low-loss dielectric materials using full-wave numerical simulations in conjunction with the particle swarm optimization algorithm. The amennas are composed of a reflector and a director deposited on a glass substrate, and an emitter placed in the feed gap between them serves as an internal source of excitation. In particular, we analyze antennas with rectangular- and horn-shaped directors made of either hafnium dioxide or silicon. The optimized antennas produce highly directional emissions due to the presence of two dominant guided TE modes in the director in addition to leaky modes. These guided modes dominate the far-field emission pattern and govern the direction of the main lobe emission, which predominately originates from the end facet of the director. Our work also provides a comprehensive analysis of the modes, radiation patterns, parametric influences, and bandwidths of the antennas, which highlights their robust nature. (C) 2021 Optical Society of America
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