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Designing complex physical systems, including photonic structures, is typically a tedious trial-and-error process that requires extensive simulations with iterative sweeps in multi-dimensional parameter space. To circumvent this…

Optics · Physics 2019-02-08 Zhaocheng Liu , Lakshmi Raju , Dayu Zhu , Wenshan Cai

Clusters of wave-scattering oscillators offer the ability to passively control wave energy in elastic continua. However, designing such clusters to achieve a desired wave energy pattern is a highly nontrivial task. While the forward…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-29 Joshua R. Tempelman , Tobias Weidemann , Eric B. Flynn , Kathryn H. Matlack , Alexander F. Vakakis

Metasurfaces is an emerging field that enables the manipulation of light by an ultra-thin structure composed of sub-wavelength antennae and fulfills an important requirement for miniaturized optical elements. Finding a new design for a…

We propose and show the efficacy of a new method to address generic inverse problems. Inverse modeling is the task whereby one seeks to determine the control parameters of a natural system that produce a given set of observed measurements.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Gregory P. Spell , Simiao Ren , Leslie M. Collins , Jordan M. Malof

Inverse design represents a paradigm shift in the development of nanophotonic devices, where optimal geometries and materials are discovered by an algorithm rather than symmetry considerations or intuition. Here we present a very general…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-29 Robert Bennett , Stefan Yoshi Buhmann

This paper introduces a novel deep neural network architecture for solving the inverse scattering problem in frequency domain with wide-band data, by directly approximating the inverse map, thus avoiding the expensive optimization loop of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-07 Borong Zhang , Leonardo Zepeda-Núñez , Qin Li

The rational design of molecules with desired properties is a long-standing challenge in chemistry. Generative neural networks have emerged as a powerful approach to sample novel molecules from a learned distribution. Here, we propose a…

Directly manipulating the atomic structure to achieve a specific property is a long pursuit in the field of materials. However, hindered by the disordered, non-prototypical glass structure and the complex interplay between structure and…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-11-10 Qi Wang , Longfei Zhang

Conventional meta-atom designs rely heavily on researchers' prior knowledge and trial-and-error searches using full-wave simulations, resulting in time-consuming and inefficient processes. Inverse design methods based on optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Zezhou Zhang , Chuanchuan Yang , Yifeng Qin , Hao Feng , Jiqiang Feng , Hongbin Li

In order to design broadband extreme ultraviolet multilayers with many objectives, the multiobjective genetic algorithm and the multiobjective genetics algorithm with reference direction have been improved and combined used. The certain…

Optics · Physics 2020-08-17 Shang-qi Kuang , Xiao-wei Song , Jing-quan Lin

Machine learning techniques, notably various deep neural network methods, are instrumental in processing extensive and intricate data sets in engineering and scientific fields. This paper shows how deep neural networks can inversely design…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-05 Ali Mohajer Hejazi , Vincent Ginis

Achieving quantum-limited motional control of optically trapped particles beyond the sub-micrometer scale is an outstanding problem in levitated optomechanics. A key obstacle is solving the light scattering problem and identifying particle…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-15 Moosung Lee , Benjamin A. Stickler , Thomas Pertsch , Sungkun Hong

Many applications require recovering the geometry information of multiple elastic particles based on the scattering information. In this paper, we consider the inverse time-harmonic elastic scattering of multiple rigid particles in three…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-09-21 Jun Lai , Jinrui Zhang

This work deals with the inverse design in the field of photonic crystal based devices. Here an inverse method containing a fast and accurate simulation method integrated with a competent optimization method is presented. Two designs…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Andreas Hakansson , Jose Sanchez-Dehesa , Lorenzo Sanchis

From self-assembly and protein folding to combinatorial metamaterials, a key challenge in material design is finding the right combination of interacting building blocks that yield targeted properties. Such structures are fiendishly…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-06-26 Ryan van Mastrigt , Marjolein Dijkstra , Martin van Hecke , Corentin Coulais

Recent advances in meta-optics have enabled diverse functionalities in compact optical devices; however, conventional forward design approaches become inadequate as device complexity and scale grow. Inverse design offers a powerful…

Topological concepts open many new horizons for photonic devices, from integrated optics to lasers. The complexity of large scale topological devices asks for an effective solution of the inverse problem: how best to engineer the topology…

Optics · Physics 2018-03-09 Laura Pilozzi , Francis A. Farrelly , Giulia Marcucci , Claudio Conti

Inverse-designed nanophotonic devices offer promising solutions for analog optical computation. High-density photonic integration is critical for scaling such architectures toward more complex computational tasks and large-scale…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-09 Joel Sved , Shijie Song , Liwei Li , George Li , Debin Meng , Xiaoke Yi

The traditional approach of hand-crafting priors (such as sparsity) for solving inverse problems is slowly being replaced by the use of richer learned priors (such as those modeled by deep generative networks). In this work, we study the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Viraj Shah , Rakib Hyder , M. Salman Asif , Chinmay Hegde

Inverse problems exist in many domains such as phase imaging, image processing, and computer vision. These problems are often solved with application-specific algorithms, even though their nature remains the same: mapping input image(s) to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-10-22 Feng Wang , Alberto Eljarrat , Johannes Müller , Trond Henninen , Erni Rolf , Christoph Koch