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

fYear

2005

fDate

12-15 Dec. 2005

Firstpage

48

Lastpage

53

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Decision and Control, 2005 and 2005 European Control Conference. CDC-ECC '05. 44th IEEE Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9567-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CDC.2005.1582129

Filename

1582129