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A major difficulty in applying computational design methods to nanophotonic devices is ensuring that the resulting designs are fabricable. Here, we describe a general inverse design algorithm for nanophotonic devices that directly…

Optics · Physics 2017-03-28 Alexander Y. Piggott , Jan Petykiewicz , Logan Su , Jelena Vučković

Topological photonic crystal waveguides can create edge states that may be more robust against fabrication disorder, and can yield propagation modes below the light line. We present a fully three-dimensional method to modify…

Optics · Physics 2021-04-19 Eric Nussbaum , Erik Sauer , Stephen Hughes

Scalable photonic optimization holds the promise of significantly enhancing the performance of diffractive lenses across a wide range of photonic applications. However, the high computational cost of conventional full three-dimensional…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-26 Marco Gerhardt , Sungkun Hong , Moosung Lee

Inverse design refers to the problem of optimizing the input of an objective function in order to enact a target outcome. For many real-world engineering problems, the objective function takes the form of a simulator that predicts how the…

Recent breakthroughs in photonics-based quantum, neuromorphic and analogue processing have pointed out the need for new schemes for fully programmable nanophotonic devices. Universal optical elements based on interferometer meshes are…

Narrowband perfect absorbers are interesting for spectrum sensing, molecular detection, and infrared imaging. However, their design remains constrained by intuitive, iterative methods that lack flexibility, while also facing challenges in…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-04 H. Shen , T. Wang , X. Yao , O. Wu , C. Xie , C. Qian , H. Chen , T. Wang

Graded-index optical elements are capable of shaping light precisely and in very specific ways. While classical freeform optics uses only a two-dimensional domain such as the surface of a lens, recent technological advances in laser…

Optics · Physics 2022-04-06 Nicolas Barré , Alexander Jesacher

Electromagnetic absorbers combining ultrathin profiles with robust absorptivity across wide incidence angles are essential for applications such as stealth technology, wireless communications, and quantum computing. Traditional designs,…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-22 Eunbi Jang , Junghee Cho , Chanik Kang , Haejun Chung

End-to-end optimization, which simultaneously optimizes optics and algorithms, has emerged as a powerful data-driven method for computational imaging system design. This method achieves joint optimization through backpropagation by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Chi-Jui Ho , Yash Belhe , Steve Rotenberg , Ravi Ramamoorthi , Tzu-Mao Li , Nicholas Antipa

Nonlinear-wave mixing in optical microresonators offers new perspectives to generate compact optical-frequency microcombs, which enable an ever-growing number of applications. Microcombs exhibit a spectral profile that is primarily…

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

Wavelength division multiplexers are fundamental to the functioning and performance of integrated photonic circuits, with applications ranging from optical interconnects to sensing and quantum technologies. Current solutions are limited by…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-11 Sydney Mason , Geun Ho Ahn , Jakob Grzesik , Sungjun Eun , Jelena Vučković

Metasurfaces, with their ability to control electromagnetic waves, hold immense potential in optical device design, especially for applications requiring precise control over dispersion. This work introduces an approach to dispersion…

Nonlinear metasurfaces offer a new paradigm to realize optical nonlinear devices with new and unparalleled behavior compared to nonlinear crystals, due to the interplay between photonic resonances and materials properties. The complicated…

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

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

Programmable optical circuits form a key part of quantum technologies today, ranging from transceivers for quantum communication to integrated photonic chips for quantum information processing. As the size of such circuits is increased,…

High-performance multimode/multiwavelength (de)multiplexer is one of the most pivotal photonic devices for advanced on-chip interconnect systems. Traditional on-chip photonic (de)multiplexing requires large device footprint for maintaining…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-03 Faqian Chong , Yulun Wu , Bingtao Gao , Shilong Li , Hongsheng Chen , Song Han

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…

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