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A major difficulty in applying computational design methods to nanophotonic devices is ensuring that the resulting designs are fabricable. Here, we describe a general inverse design algorithm for nanophotonic devices that directly…

Optics · Physics 2017-03-28 Alexander Y. Piggott , Jan Petykiewicz , Logan Su , Jelena Vučković

Data inconsistency leads to a slow training process when deep neural networks are used for the inverse design of photonic devices, an issue that arises from the fundamental property of non-uniqueness in all inverse scattering problems. Here…

Optics · Physics 2018-04-09 Dianjing Liu , Yixuan Tan , Erfan Khoram , Zongfu Yu

Inverse design, the process of matching a device or process parameters to exhibit a desired performance, is applied in many disciplines ranging from material design over chemical processes and to engineering. Machine learning has emerged as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Michel Frising , Jorge Bravo-Abad , Ferry Prins

Plasmonic nanoantennas with suitable far-field characteristics are of huge interest for utilization in optical wireless links, inter-/intra-chip communications, LiDARs, and photonic integrated circuits due to their exceptional modal…

Topology optimization (TO) is a family of computational methods that derive near-optimal geometries from formal problem descriptions. Despite their success, established TO methods are limited to generating single solutions, restricting the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Andreas Radler , Eric Volkmann , Johannes Brandstetter , Arturs Berzins

The discovery of molecules with tailored optoelectronic properties such as specific frequency and intensity of absorption or emission is a major challenge in creating next-generation organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) and photovoltaics.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-04-27 James David Green , Eric Gabriel Fuemmeler , Timothy J. H. Hele

We discuss realization, properties and performance of the adaptive finite element approach to the design of nano-photonic components. Central issues are the construction of vectorial finite elements and the embedding of bounded components…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-13 Jan Pomplun , Sven Burger , Lin Zschiedrich , Frank Schmidt

In the present work, a new computational framework for structural topology optimization based on the concept of moving deformable components is proposed. Compared with the traditional pixel or node point-based solution framework, the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2015-06-23 Xu Guo , Weisheng Zhang , Wenliang Zhong

We present a new technique for the design of transformation-optics devices based on large-scale optimization to achieve the optimal effective isotropic dielectric materials within prescribed index bounds, which is computationally cheap…

Optics · Physics 2013-06-11 David Liu , Lucas H. Gabrielli , Michal Lipson , Steven G. Johnson

Structured optical waveforms are emerging as powerful control fields for the next generation of complex photonic and electromagnetic systems, where the temporal structure of light can determine the ultimate performance of scientific…

One emerging approach for the fabrication of complex architectures on the nanoscale is to utilize particles customized to intrinsically self-assemble into a desired structure. Inverse methods of statistical mechanics have proven…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-09-08 R. B. Jadrich , B. A. Lindquist , T. M. Truskett

Deep learning has emerged as a key tool for designing nanophotonic structures that manipulate light at sub-wavelength scales. We investigate how to inversely design plasmonic nanostructures using conditional generative adversarial networks.…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-21 Petter Persson , Nils Henriksson , Nicolò Maccaferri

We present an accurate differentiable parametrization scheme for topological optimization and inverse design of passive components of integrated Si photonics. We show that the most of operations in the transformation chain from control…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-07 Anton Sofronov , Dina Yakovleva , Alexander Yakubovich

2. In Section 3, we used some vague statements to affirm the training process of the neural network, which cannot support others to reproduce the results of the paper. In addition, this section does not show the difference between this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-01 Liang Xue , Jie Liu , Guilin Wen , Hongxin Wang

Inverse design has emerged as a transformative approach for photonic device optimization, enabling the exploration of high-dimensional, non-intuitive design spaces to create ultra-compact devices and advance photonic integrated circuits…

We propose a method to use artificial neural networks to approximate light scattering by multilayer nanoparticles. We find the network needs to be trained on only a small sampling of the data in order to approximate the simulation to high…

Using adaptive algorithms, the design of nano-scale dielectric structures for photonic applications is explored. Widths of dielectric layers in a linear array are adjusted to match target responses of optical transmission as a function of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Yu Chen , Rong Yu , Weifei Li , Omid Nohadani , Stephan Haas , A. F. J. Levi

A very efficient method for the calculation of the effective optical response of nano-structured composite systems allows the design of metamaterials tailored for specific optical polarization properties. We use our method to design 2D…

Optics · Physics 2019-09-24 Bernardo S. Mendoza , W. Luis Mochán

The integration of topology into photonics has generated a new design framework for constructing robust and unidirectional waveguides, which are not feasible with traditional photonic devices. Here, we overcome current barriers to the…

With the increasing power density of electronics components, the heat dissipation capacity of heat sinks gradually becomes a bottleneck. Many structural optimization methods, including topology optimization, have been widely used for heat…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-10-07 Tao Zeng , Hu Wang , Mengzhu Yang , Joe Alexandersen