Exploration and Optimization of Quantum Bragg Mirror Detector (QBMD) Structures via Artificial Intelligence
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https://doi.org/10.5753/reic.2026.8500Keywords:
QBMDs, Bayesian Optimization, Surrogate Model, e-mulate, OptoelectronicsAbstract
Quantum Bragg Mirror Detectors (QBMDs) are promising semiconductor photodetectors whose design involves a constrained, high-dimensional search space and computationally expensive transfer-matrix simulations. This work presents an artificial intelligence pipeline for QBMD optimization that combines multiobjective Bayesian optimization with surrogate modeling. Seven structural parameters are optimized with the \textit{e-mulate} simulator, considering four physical performance metrics and their Pareto trade-offs. The generated data are then used to train a machine-learning surrogate for fast performance prediction. Results show that the proposed approach identifies promising non-dominated designs while substantially reducing the cost of design-space exploration, supporting more efficient QBMD development.
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