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The task of designing optical multilayer thin-films regarding a given target is currently solved using gradient-based optimization in conjunction with methods that can introduce additional thin-film layers. Recently, Deep Learning and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 Alexander Luce , Ali Mahdavi , Heribert Wankerl , Florian Marquardt

This work deals with the inverse design in the field of photonic crystal based devices. Here an inverse method containing a fast and accurate simulation method integrated with a competent optimization method is presented. Two designs…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Andreas Hakansson , Jose Sanchez-Dehesa , Lorenzo Sanchis

Optical multi-layer thin films are widely used in optical and energy applications requiring photonic designs. Engineers often design such structures based on their physical intuition. However, solely relying on human experts can be…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-23 Haozhu Wang , Zeyu Zheng , Chengang Ji , L. Jay Guo

Photochromic materials enable dynamic optical modulation through reversible transitions between distinct absorption states, with broad potential for smart windows, adaptive optics, and reconfigurable photonic devices. Micron-scale…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-02-19 Bahrem Serhat Danis , Amin Tabatabaei Mohseni , Smagul Karazhanov , Esra Zayim

The development of inverse design, where computational optimization techniques are used to design devices based on certain specifications, has led to the discovery of many compact, non-intuitive structures with superior performance. Among…

Optics · Physics 2019-02-25 Tyler W. Hughes , Momchil Minkov , Ian A. D. Williamson , Shanhui Fan

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 introduce a new method for inverse design of nanophotonic devices which guarantees that resulting designs satisfy strict length scale constraints - including minimum width and spacing constraints required by commercial semiconductor…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Martin F. Schubert , Alfred K. C. Cheung , Ian A. D. Williamson , Aleksandra Spyra , David H. Alexander

Generative transformers have experienced rapid popularity growth in the computer vision community in synthesizing high-fidelity and high-resolution images. The best generative transformer models so far, however, still treat an image naively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Huiwen Chang , Han Zhang , Lu Jiang , Ce Liu , William T. Freeman

The research of metamaterials has achieved enormous success in the manipulation of light in an artificially prescribed manner using delicately designed sub-wavelength structures, so-called meta-atoms. Even though modern numerical methods…

Optics · Physics 2019-01-31 Wei Ma , Feng Cheng , Yihao Xu , Qinlong Wen , Yongmin Liu

We introduce Multi-Object Generative Perception (MultiGP), a generative inverse rendering method for stochastic sampling of all radiometric constituents -- reflectance, texture, and illumination -- underlying object appearance from a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Nobuo Yoshii , Xinran Nicole Han , Ryo Kawahara , Todd Zickler , Ko Nishino

Over the past two decades, photonic inverse design has emerged as a powerful approach to implement photonic devices with improved performance, or realize new functionalities. While the efforts over the first decade focused on proof of…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-24 Louise Schul , Sydney Mason , Sungjun Eun , Geun Ho Ahn , Jelena Vučković

To design semiconductor-based optical devices, the optical properties of the used semiconductor materials must be precisely measured over a large band. Transmission spectroscopy stands out as an inexpensive and widely available method for…

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…

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In the field of computer vision, visible light images often exhibit low contrast in low-light conditions, presenting a significant challenge. While infrared imagery provides a potential solution, its utilization entails high costs and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Yijia Chen , Pinghua Chen , Xiangxin Zhou , Yingtie Lei , Ziyang Zhou , Mingxian Li

Numerical simulations have become an essential design tool in the field of photonics, especially for nanophotonics. In particular, 3D finite-difference-time-domain (FDTD) simulations are popular for their powerful design capabilities.…

Optics · Physics 2023-03-31 Michael Efseaff , Kyle Wynne , Krishna Narayan , Mark C. Harrison

The advent of two-dimensional metamaterials in recent years has ushered in a revolutionary means to manipulate the behavior of light on the nanoscale. The effective parameters of these architected materials render unprecedented control over…

Optics · Physics 2018-11-14 Zhaocheng Liu , Dayu Zhu , Sean P. Rodrigues , Kyu-Tae Lee , Wenshan Cai

Generating 3D shapes from single RGB images is essential in various applications such as robotics. Current approaches typically target images containing clear and complete visual descriptions of the object, without considering common…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Yiheng Xiong , Angela Dai

Prefix adders are widely used in compute-intensive applications for their high speed. However, designing optimized prefix adders is challenging due to strict design rules and an exponentially large design space. We introduce PrefixGPT, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Ruogu Ding , Xin Ning , Ulf Schlichtmann , Weikang Qian

Deep learning has emerged as a key tool for designing nanophotonic structures that manipulate light at sub-wavelength scales. We investigate how to inversely design plasmonic nanostructures using conditional generative adversarial networks.…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-21 Petter Persson , Nils Henriksson , Nicolò Maccaferri