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Inverse design (ID) is a computational method that systematically explores a design space to find optimal device geometries based on specific performance criteria. In silicon photonics, ID often leads to devices with design features that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-11 Shaheer Khan , Mustafa Hammood , Nicolas A. F. Jaeger , Lukas Chrostowski

Inverse design represents a paradigm shift in the development of nanophotonic devices, where optimal geometries and materials are discovered by an algorithm rather than symmetry considerations or intuition. Here we present a very general…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-29 Robert Bennett , Stefan Yoshi Buhmann

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

3D additive manufacturing enables the fabrication of nanophotonic structures with subwavelength features that control light across macroscopic scales. Gradient-based optimization offers an efficient approach to design these complex and…

Recent advances in the design and fabrication of on-chip optical microresonators has greatly expanded their applications in photonics, enabling metrology, communications, and on-chip lasers. Designs for these applications require fine…

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…

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

A fundamental challenge in the design of photonic devices, and electromagnetic structures more generally, is the optimization of their overall architecture to achieve a desired response. To this end, topology or shape optimizers based on…

Time-varying nanostructures allow us to control the spatial and temporal properties of light. The temporal modulation of the nanostructures constitutes an additional degree of freedom to control their scattering properties on demand and in…

Integrated photonics is increasingly demanded in applications such as large-scale data centers, intelligent sensing, and next-generation wireless communications, where compact, multifunctional, and energy-efficient components are essential.…

Electromagnetic metasurfaces have attracted significant interest recently due to their low profile and advantageous applications. Practically, many metasurface designs start with a set of constraints for the radiated far-field, such as…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-04-04 Stewart Pearson , Parinaz Naseri , Sean V. Hum

This paper has presented inversely determining the resonant configuration of the bilateral nanostructures for periodic metallic slits with extraordinary optical transmission performance. The topology optimization approach is utilized to…

Optics · Physics 2017-12-05 Yongbo Deng , Chao Song , Yihui Wu , Zhenyu Liu , Jan G. Korvink

Next-generation integrated nanophotonic device designs leverage advanced optimization techniques such as inverse design and topology optimization which achieve high performance and extreme miniaturization by optimizing a massively complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Dusan Gostimirovic , Yuri Grinberg , Dan-Xia Xu , Odile Liboiron-Ladouceur

Previously proposed designs of integrated photonic devices have used the intuitive brute force approach or optimization methods that employ parameter search algorithms. However, a small parameter space and poor exploitation of the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-02-28 Yusuf A. Yilmaz , Ahmet M. Alpkilic , Aydan Yeltik , Hamza Kurt

Inverse design enables automating the discovery and optimization of devices achieving performance significantly exceeding that of traditional human-engineered designs. However, existing methodologies to inverse-design electromagnetic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-01-30 Jui-Hung Sun , Mohamed Elsawaf , Yifei Zheng , Ho-Chun Lin , Chia Wei Hsu , Constantine Sideris

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.…

Chiral nanophotonic structures have garnered considerable interest in recent years due to their potential to enhance the efficacy of chirality-sensitive biomolecular detection. Designing metaplatforms to enhance chiroptical signals under…

Ultrathin meta-optics offer unmatched, multifunctional control of light. Next-generation optical technologies, however, demand unprecedented performance. This will likely require design algorithms surpassing the capability of human…

Optics · Physics 2021-04-06 Shane Colburn , Arka Majumdar

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…

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