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We establish results for the injectivity and injectivity modulo gauge of certain inverse source problems in transport on a simply connected domain with variable index of refraction inducing a 'simple geometry'. The model given by radiative…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-08-20 Guillaume Bal , François Monard

It is a well-known fact that the first and last non-trivial coefficients of the characteristic polynomial of a linear operator are respectively its trace and its determinant. This work shows how to compute recursively all the coefficients…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ronaldo Rodrigues Silva

Modern computer vision algorithms have brought significant advancement to 3D geometry reconstruction. However, illumination and material reconstruction remain less studied, with current approaches assuming very simplified models for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Dejan Azinović , Tzu-Mao Li , Anton Kaplanyan , Matthias Nießner

Inverse design, where we seek to design input variables in order to optimize an underlying objective function, is an important problem that arises across fields such as mechanical engineering to aerospace engineering. Inverse design is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Tailin Wu , Takashi Maruyama , Long Wei , Tao Zhang , Yilun Du , Gianluca Iaccarino , Jure Leskovec

In the present paper we describe a method for solving inverse problems for the Helmholtz equation in radially-symmetric domains given multi-frequency data. Our approach is based on the construction of suitable trace formulas which relate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-16 Abinand Gopal , Jeremy Hoskins , Vladimir Rokhlin

We present a computational framework for efficient optimization-based "inverse design" of large-area "metasurfaces" (subwavelength-patterned surfaces) for applications such as multi-wavelength and multi-angle optimizations, and…

We consider the following geometric optics problem: Construct a system of two reflectors which transforms a spherical wavefront generated by a point source into a beam of parallel rays. This beam has a prescribed intensity distribution. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Tilmann Glimm

This paper investigates the inverse random source problem for elastic waves in three dimensions, where the source is assumed to be driven by an additive white noise. A novel computational method is proposed for reconstructing the variance…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Hao Gu , Tianjiao Wang , Xiang Xu , Yue Zhao

Numerical optimization for the inverse design of photonic structures is a tool which is providing increasingly convincing results -- even though the wave nature of problems in photonics makes them particularly complex. In the meantime, the…

We show that the use of the electromagnetic inverse source framework offers great flexibility in the design of metasurfaces. In particular, this approach is advantageous for antenna design applications where the goal is often to satisfy a…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-10-17 Trevor Brown , Chaitanya Narendra , Yousef Vahabzadeh , Christophe Caloz , Puyan Mojabi

We present a method for computing A-optimal sensor placements for infinite-dimensional Bayesian linear inverse problems governed by PDEs with irreducible model uncertainties. Here, irreducible uncertainties refers to uncertainties in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-26 Karina Koval , Alen Alexanderian , Georg Stadler

Data-driven approaches have been proposed as effective strategies for the inverse design and optimization of photonic structures in recent years. In order to assist data-driven methods for the design of topology of photonic devices, we…

Optics · Physics 2020-03-18 Zhaocheng Liu , Zhaoming Zhu , Wenshan Cai

We present a practical methodology for inverse design of compact high-order/multiresonance filters in linear passive 2-port wave-scattering systems, targeting any desired transmission spectrum (such as standard pass/stop-band filters). Our…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-02-11 Mo Chen , Steven G. Johnson , Aristeidis Karalis

We propose an inverse-design approach for computational spectrometers in which the scattering media are topology-optimized to achieve better performance in inference of unknown spectra. Unlike traditional end-to-end approaches, our inverse…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-31 Wenchao Ma , Raphaël Pestourie , Zin Lin , Steven G. Johnson

An inverse scattering problem is formulated for reconstructing optical properties of biological tissues. A recursive linearization algorithm is used to solve the inverse scattering problem. We employed the idea of finite element boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-04-30 Ying Li

The development of low-loss reconfigurable integrated optical devices enables further research into technologies including photonic signal processing, analogue quantum computing, and optical neural networks. Here, we introduce digital…

This paper develops a trace-regular variational framework for time-harmonic Maxwell scattering problems involving pointwise nonlinear boundary and interface responses. We investigate three canonical classes of models: nonlinear impedance,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Chao Deng , Yixian Gao

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

Transformation optics offers an unconventional approach to the control of electromagnetic fields. A transformation optical structure is designed by first applying a form-invariant coordinate transform to Maxwell's equations, in which part…

Inverse design is a powerful tool in wave-physics and in particular in photonics for compact, high-performance devices. To date, applications have mostly been limited to linear systems and it has rarely been investigated or demonstrated in…