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Metasurfaces are ultra-thin optical elements composed of engineered sub-wavelength structures that enable precise control of light. Their inverse design - determining a geometry that yields a desired optical response - is challenging due to…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-30 Liav Hen , Erez Yosef , Dan Raviv , Raja Giryes , Jacob Scheuer

Subwavelength photonic structures and metamaterials provide revolutionary approaches for controlling light. The inverse design methods proposed for these subwavelength structures are vital to the development of new photonic devices.…

Harnessing the rich nonlinear dynamics of highly-deformable materials has the potential to unlock the next generation of functional smart materials and devices. However, unlocking such potential requires effective strategies to spatially…

Deep learning (DL) inverse techniques have increased the speed of artificial electromagnetic material (AEM) design and improved the quality of resulting devices. Many DL inverse techniques have succeeded on a number of AEM design tasks, but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Simiao Ren , Ashwin Mahendra , Omar Khatib , Yang Deng , Willie J. Padilla , Jordan M. Malof

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

We propose a new low-cost machine-learning-based methodology which assists designers in reducing the gap between the problem and the solution in the design process. Our work applies reinforcement learning (RL) to find the optimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Junyoung Choi , Minsung Hyun , Nojun Kwak

Inverse design aims to design the input variables of a physical system to optimize a specified objective function, typically formulated as a search or optimization problem. However, in 3D domains, the design space grows exponentially,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Yuze Hao , Linchao Zhu , Yi Yang

Designing free-form photonic devices is fundamentally challenging due to the vast number of possible geometries and the complex requirements of fabrication constraints. Traditional inverse-design approaches--whether driven by human…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-25 Dongjin Seo , Soobin Um , Sangbin Lee , Jong Chul Ye , Haejun Chung

We propose an efficient inverse design approach for multifunctional optical elements based on adaptive deep diffractive neural networks (a-D$^2$NNs). Specifically, we introduce a-D$^2$NNs and design two-layer diffractive devices that can…

Optics · Physics 2022-06-08 Yuyao Chen , Yilin Zhu , Wesley A. Britton , Luca Dal Negro

Deep learning, as a highly efficient method for metasurface inverse design, commonly use simulation data to train deep neural networks (DNNs) that can map desired functionalities to proper metasurface designs. However, the assumptions and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-07 Jingxin Zhang , Jiawei Xi , Peixing Li , Ray C. C. Cheung , Alex M. H. Wong , Jensen Li

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…

Designing a multi-layer optical system with designated optical characteristics is an inverse design problem in which the resulting design is determined by several discrete and continuous parameters. In particular, we consider three design…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Heribert Wankerl , Maike L. Stern , Ali Mahdavi , Christoph Eichler , Elmar W. Lang

Predicting physical response of an artificially structured material is of particular interest for scientific and engineering applications. Here we use deep learning to predict optical response of artificially engineered nanophotonic…

The human brain has immense learning capabilities at extreme energy efficiencies and scale that no artificial system has been able to match. For decades, reverse engineering the brain has been one of the top priorities of science and…

Mechanical and phononic metamaterials exhibiting negative elastic moduli, gapped vibrational spectra, or topologically protected modes enable precise control of structural and acoustic functionalities. While much progress has been made in…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-09-25 Henrik Ronellenfitsch , Norbert Stoop , Josephine Yu , Aden Forrow , Jörn Dunkel

In an expansion of a previous study [1], we apply inverse design methods to produce two-dimensional plasma metamaterial devices with realistic plasma elements which incorporate quartz envelopes, collisionality (loss), non-uniform density…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-10-31 Jesse A Rodriguez , Mark A. Cappelli

In this paper, the tools provided by the theory of Optimal Experimental Design are applied to a nonlinear calibration model. This is motivated by the need of estimating radiation doses using radiochromic films for radiotherapy purposes. The…

Applications · Statistics 2020-05-20 Jesús López-Fidalgo , Mariano Amo-Salas

The complexity of applications addressed with photonic integrated circuits is steadily rising and poses increasingly challenging demands on individual component functionality, performance and footprint. Inverse design methods have recently…

Optics · Physics 2023-05-10 Marco Butz , Adrian S. Abazi , Rene Ross , Benjamin Risse , Carsten Schuck

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

The past decade has witnessed the advances of artificial intelligence with various applications in engineering. Recently, artificial neural network empowered inverse design for metasurfaces has been developed that can design on-demand…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Changhao Liu , Fan Yang , Maokun Li , Shenheng Xu