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As an increasingly powerful technique in integrated photonics, inverse design uses optimization algorithms to automatically create compact, high-performance photonic structures, often yielding non-intuitive layouts far more compact than…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-03 Junho Park , Taehan Kim , Mohammad Ali , Di Liang

Gradient-based inverse design in photonics has already achieved remarkable results in designing small-footprint, high-performance optical devices. The adjoint variable method, which allows for the efficient computation of gradients, has…

We consider the task of solving generic inverse problems, where one wishes to determine the hidden parameters of a natural system that will give rise to a particular set of measurements. Recently many new approaches based upon deep learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Simiao Ren , Willie Padilla , Jordan Malof

The fusion of artificial intelligence (AI) with physics-guided frameworks has opened transformative avenues for advancing the design and optimization of electromagnetic and nanophotonic systems. Innovations in deep neural networks (DNNs)…

The exponential growth of machine-intelligence workloads is colliding with the power, memory, and interconnect limits of the post-Moore era, motivating compute substrates that scale beyond transistor density alone. Integrated photonics is…

The incorporation of high-performance optoelectronic devices into photonic neuromorphic processors can substantially accelerate computationally intensive operations in machine learning (ML) algorithms. However, the conventional device…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Yingheng Tang , Princess Tara Zamani , Ruiyang Chen , Jianzhu Ma , Minghao Qi , Cunxi Yu , Weilu Gao

The geometric design of structures with optimized physical and chemical properties is one of the core topics in materials science. However, designing new functional materials is challenging due to the vast number of existing and the…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-17 Congcong Cui , Guangfeng Wei , Matthias Saba , Yuanyuan Cao , Lu Han

Deep optics has emerged as a promising approach by co-designing optical elements with deep learning algorithms. However, current research typically overlooks the analysis and optimization of manufacturing and assembly tolerances. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Jun Dai , Liqun Chen , Xinge Yang , Yuyao Hu , Jinwei Gu , Tianfan Xue

Optimization methods are playing an increasingly important role in all facets of photonics engineering, from integrated photonics to free space diffractive optics. However, efforts in the photonics community to develop optimization…

Innovative machine learning techniques have facilitated the inverse design of photonic structures for numerous practical applications. Nevertheless, within these approaches, the quantity of data and the initial data distribution are…

Optics · Physics 2023-11-07 Chanik Kang , Dongjin Seo , Svetlana V Boriskina , Haejun Chung

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 thermoelastic metamaterial based on a bimaterial hybrid-honeycomb structure, exhibiting simultaneously negative Poisson's ratios and negative thermal expansion coefficients is very promising for various application. This work is…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Xiang-Long Peng , Bai-Xiang Xu

Data-driven methods have increasingly been applied to the development of optical systems as inexpensive and effective inverse design approaches. Optical properties (e.g., band-gap properties) of photonic crystals (PCs) are closely…

Optics · Physics 2022-02-01 Tao Zhan , Quan-Shan Liu , Lu Qiu , Yuan-Jie Sun , Tao Wen , Rui Zhang

We propose a rigorous approach for the inverse design of functional photonic structures by coupling the adjoint optimization method and the two-dimensional generalized Mie theory (2D-GMT) for the multiple scattering problem of finite-size…

Optics · Physics 2023-07-19 Yilin Zhu , Yuyao Chen , Sean Gorsky , Tornike Shubitidze , Luca Dal Negro

Adjoint-based optimization methods are attractive for aerodynamic shape design primarily due to their computational costs being independent of the dimensionality of the input space and their ability to generate high-fidelity gradients that…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-18 S. Ashwin Renganathan , Romit Maulik and , Jai Ahuja

The sharp increasing in fabrication capabilities of nanomaterials, and complex structures such as meta-surfaces and metalens, has opened to the possibility of employing them for accurately control the electromagnetic field, beyond the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Vincenzo Mottola , Luisa Faella , Carlo Forestiere , Antonello Tamburrino

Optical multilayer thin film structures have been widely used in numerous photonic domains and applications. The key component to enable these applications is the inverse design. Different from other photonic structures such as metasurface…

Optics · Physics 2024-09-27 Taigao Ma , Mingqian Ma , L. Jay Guo

Relying on either deep models or physical models are two mainstream approaches for solving inverse sample reconstruction problems in programmable illumination computational microscopy. Solutions based on physical models possess strong…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-21 Ruiqing Sun , Delong Yang , Shaohui Zhang , Qun Hao

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…

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