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Deep neural networks (DNNs) utilized recently are physically deployed with computational units (e.g., CPUs and GPUs). Such a design might lead to a heavy computational burden, significant latency, and intensive power consumption, which are…

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We explore a versatile technique for inverse designing 2D photonic crystal metasurfaces. These surfaces, known for their ability to manipulate light-matter interactions, can be precisely controlled to achieve specific functionalities. The…

We report a high through-put combinatorial approach to photonic metamaterial optimization. The new approach is based on parallel synthesis and consecutive optical characterization of large numbers of spatially addressable nano-fabricated…

Optics · Physics 2015-03-17 E. Plum , K. Tanaka , W. T. Chen , V. A. Fedotov , D. P. Tsai , N. I. Zheludev

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

Photonic integrated circuits offer a compact and stable platform for generating, manipulating, and detecting light. They are instrumental for classical and quantum applications. Imperfections stemming from fabrication constraints,…

Our visual perception of our surroundings is ultimately limited by the diffraction limit, which stipulates that optical information smaller than roughly half the illumination wavelength is not retrievable. Over the past decades, many…

Measurements of microscale surface patterns are essential for process and quality control in industries across semiconductors, micro-machining, and biomedicines. However, the development of miniaturized and intelligent profiling systems…

Does a machine learning model actually gain an understanding of the material space? We answer this question in the affirmative on the example of the OptiMate model, a graph attention network trained to predict the optical properties of…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-19 Malte Grunert , Max Großmann , Erich Runge

Photonic brain-inspired platforms are emerging as novel analog computing devices, enabling fast and energy-efficient operations for machine learning. These artificial neural networks generally require tailored optical elements, such as…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Davide Pierangeli , Giulia Marcucci , Claudio Conti

Electromagnetic multipole expansion theory underpins nanoscale light-matter interactions, particularly within subwavelength meta-atoms, paving the way for diverse and captivating optical phenomena. While conventionally brute force…

Deep learning in the context of nano-photonics is mostly discussed in terms of its potential for inverse design of photonic devices or nanostructures. Many of the recent works on machine-learning inverse design are highly specific, and the…

Optics · Physics 2021-09-03 Peter R. Wiecha , Arnaud Arbouet , Christian Girard , Otto L. Muskens

This work presents the design and fabrication of simple, polymeric, structure-based optical filters that simultaneously focus light. These filters represent a novel design at the boundary between diffractive optics and metasurfaces that may…

Optics · Physics 2020-09-22 Mansoor A. Sultan , Fatih Balli , Daniel L. Lau , J. T. Hastings

In contrast to designing nanophotonic devices by tuning a handful of device parameters, we have developed a computational method which utilizes the full parameter space to design linear nanophotonic devices. We show that our method may…

Optics · Physics 2016-12-21 Jesse Lu , Jelena Vuckovic

Topological states in photonics offer novel prospects for guiding and manipulating photons and facilitate the development of modern optical components for a variety of applications. Over the past few years, photonic topology physics has…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Robin Singh , Anuradha Murthy Agarwal , Brian W Anthony

We present a digitized adjoint method for realizing efficient inverse design of "digital" subwavelength nanophotonic devices. We design a single-mode 3-dB power divider and a dual-mode demultiplexer to demonstrate the digitized adjoint…

Optics · Physics 2019-02-05 Xinshu Ren , Weijie Chang , Longhui Lu , Max Yan , Deming Liu , Minming Zhang

Adaptable, reconfigurable and programmable are key functionalities for the next generation of silicon-based photonic processors, neural and quantum networks. Phase change technology offers proven non-volatile electronic programmability,…

A fascinating photonic platform with a small device scale, fast operating speed, as well as low energy consumption is two-dimensional (2D) materials, thanks to their in-plane crystalline structures and out-of-plane quantum confinement. The…

Metasurfaces are key to the development of flat optics and nanophotonic devices, offering significant advantages in creating structural colors and high-quality factor cavities. Multi-layer metasurfaces (MLMs) further amplify these benefits…

Optics · Physics 2024-09-12 Omar A. M. Abdelraouf , Ahmed Mousa , Mohamed Ragab

Metasurfaces are ultrathin, engineered materials composed of nanostructures that manipulate light in ways unattainable by natural materials. Recent advances have leveraged computational optimization, machine learning, and deep learning to…

Optics · Physics 2025-08-08 Hao Li , Andrey Bogdanov

The field of 2D materials-based nanophotonics has been growing at a rapid pace, triggered by the ability to design nanophotonic systems with in situ control, unprecedented degrees of freedom, and to build material heterostructures from…