Inverse Design of a Three-Dimensional Nanophotonic Resonator
J. Lu, S. Boyd, and J. Vuckovic
Optics Express, 19(11):10563-10570, May 2011.
The inverse design of a three-dimensional nanophotonic resonator is presented.
The design methodology is computationally fast (10 minutes on a standard
desktop workstation) and utilizes a 2.5-dimensional approximation of the full
three-dimensional structure. As an example, we employ the proposed method to
design a resonator which exhibits a mode volume of 
and a quality factor of 7063.