Author(s)

W. Jakob, M. Gorges-Schleuter, I. Sieber, W. SuB, H. Eggert

Abstract

In the area of micro system design, the usage of simulation and optimization must precede the production of specimen or test batches due to the expensive and time consuming nature of the production process itself. In this paper we report on the design optimization of a heterodyne receiver which is a detection module for optical communication-systems. The collimating lens-system of the receiver is optimized with respect to the tolerances of the fabrication and assembly process, as well as to the spherical aberrations of the lenses. It is shown that this is a highly multimodal problem which cannot be solved by traditional local hill climbing algorithms. For the applicability of more sop

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