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Silicon nitride photonics has enabled integration of a variety of components for applications in linear and nonlinear optics, including telecommunications, optical clocks, astrocombs, bio-sensing, and LiDAR. With the advent of inverse…

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…

The rise of machine learning and additive manufacturing has enabled the design of architected materials with tailored properties that surpass those of natural materials. Inverse design offers a data-efficient alternative to trial-and-error…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Hirak Kansara , Leo Guo , Wei Tan

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

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

Typically, photonic waveguides designed for nonlinear frequency conversion rely on intuitive and established principles, including index guiding and band gap engineering, and are based on simple shapes with high degrees of symmetry. We show…

Optics · Physics 2017-11-22 Chawin Sitawarin , Weiliang Jin , Zin Lin , Alejandro W. Rodriguez

We present an accurate differentiable parametrization scheme for topological optimization and inverse design of passive components of integrated Si photonics. We show that the most of operations in the transformation chain from control…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-07 Anton Sofronov , Dina Yakovleva , Alexander Yakubovich

The realization of ultra-compact passive silicon photonic devices is becoming more and more important for the future large-scale photonic integration as desired for many systems. Although some compact silicon photonic devices have been…

Optics · Physics 2022-12-05 Jingshu Guo , Laiwen Yu , Hengtai Xiang , Yuqi Zhao , Chaoyue Liu , Daoxin Dai

Lithography, transferring chip design masks to the silicon wafer, is the most important phase in modern semiconductor manufacturing flow. Due to the limitations of lithography systems, Extensive design optimizations are required to tackle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Haoyu Yang , Haoxing Ren

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

In order to obtain a metasurface structure capable of filtering the light of a specific wavelength in the visible band, traditional method usually traverses the space consisting of possible designs, searching for a potentially satisfying…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Xiao Han , Ziyang Fan , Chao Li , Zeyang Liu , L. Jay Guo

Numerical simulations have become a cornerstone technology in the development of nanophotonic devices. Specifically, 3D finite difference time domain (FDTD) simulations are a widely used due to their flexibility and powerful design…

Optics · Physics 2023-11-14 Michael Efseaff , Mark C. Harrison

Inverse design has emerged as a transformative approach for photonic device optimization, enabling the exploration of high-dimensional, non-intuitive design spaces to create ultra-compact devices and advance photonic integrated circuits…

Nanophotonics has emerged as a powerful tool for manipulating light on chips. Almost all of today's devices, however, have been designed using slow and ineffective brute-force search methods, leading in many cases to limited device…

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

The inverse design of metamaterial architectures presents a significant challenge, particularly for nonlinear mechanical properties involving large deformations, buckling, contact, and plasticity. Traditional methods, such as gradient-based…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-05-29 Qibang Liu , Seid Koric , Diab Abueidda , Hadi Meidani , Philippe Geubelle

Reverse engineering can be used to derive a 3D model of an existing physical part when such a model is not readily available. For parts that will be fabricated with subtractive and formative manufacturing processes, existing reverse…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Jannatul Bushra , Md Habibor Rahman , Mohammed Shafae , Hannah D. Budinoff

Recent advances in meta-optics have enabled diverse functionalities in compact optical devices; however, conventional forward design approaches become inadequate as device complexity and scale grow. Inverse design offers a powerful…

Meta-optics has achieved major breakthroughs in the past decade; however, conventional forward design faces challenges as functionality complexity and device size scale up. Inverse design aims at optimizing meta-optics design but has been…