Title :
Optimal refractive index profile design for a pair of optical fibre-based devices
Author :
Dower, Peter M. ; Farrell, Peter M.
Author_Institution :
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Australia. p.dower@ee.unimelb.edu.au
Abstract :
This paper presents an application of nonlinear optimization in the design of two particular optical fibre-based devices, namely an evanescent field sensor and a communications fibre. This work formalizes and improves upon adhoc methods employed in the optics literature and results in some quite novel device designs of current interest to the photonics community. The tools applied include dynamic programming and an implicit Markov chain approximation method for numerically solving the attendant dynamic programming equation.
Keywords :
Optimization; dynamic programming; optical fibre sensor design; refractive index design; refractive index profile; Fiber nonlinear optics; Optical design; Optical devices; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber sensors; Optical fibers; Optical refraction; Optical sensors; Optical variables control; Refractive index; Optimization; dynamic programming; optical fibre sensor design; refractive index design; refractive index profile;
Conference_Titel :
Decision and Control, 2005 and 2005 European Control Conference. CDC-ECC '05. 44th IEEE Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9567-0
DOI :
10.1109/CDC.2005.1582129
