Courtright, LoganCarruthers, Thomas F.Menyuk, CurtisMahmood, TanvirCho, Sang-YeonCahill, James P.Zhou, Weimin2024-01-022024-01-022023-10-02Courtright, Logan, Thomas F. Carruthers, Curtis R. Menyuk, Tanvir Mahmood, Sang-Yeon Cho, James P. Cahill, and Weimin Zhou. “Novel Notched Microresonator Design Through Inverse Design Optimization.” In 2023 IEEE Research and Applications of Photonics in Defense Conference (RAPID), 1–2, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1109/RAPID54473.2023.10264716.https://doi.org/10.1109/RAPID54473.2023.10264716http://hdl.handle.net/11603/311512023 IEEE Research and Applications of Photonics in Defense Conference (RAPID), 11-13 September 2023, Miramar Beach, FL, USATransverse mode overlap creates undesirable mode interactions in microresonators. We use particle swarm optimization to design an AlGaAs microring resonator to significantly increase the transverse mode separation.2 pagesen-USThis work was written as part of one of the author's official duties as an Employee of the United States Government and is therefore a work of the United States Government. In accordance with 17 U.S.C. 105, no copyright protection is available for such works under U.S. Law.Public Domainhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/Text