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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

Complex nanophotonic structures hold the potential to deliver exquisitely tailored optical responses for a range of applications. Metal-insulator-metal (MIM) metasurfaces arranged in supercells, for instance, can be tailored by geometry and…

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

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

Numerical optimization for the inverse design of photonic structures is a tool which is providing increasingly convincing results -- even though the wave nature of problems in photonics makes them particularly complex. In the meantime, the…

The complexity of applications addressed with photonic integrated circuits is steadily rising and poses increasingly challenging demands on individual component functionality, performance and footprint. Inverse design methods have recently…

Optics · Physics 2023-05-10 Marco Butz , Adrian S. Abazi , Rene Ross , Benjamin Risse , Carsten Schuck

Electromagnetic (EM) imaging is widely applied in sensing for security, biomedicine, geophysics, and various industries. It is an ill-posed inverse problem whose solution is usually computationally expensive. Machine learning (ML)…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-07-27 Rui Guo , Tianyao Huang , Maokun Li , Haiyang Zhang , Yonina C. Eldar

In recent years, the development of nanophotonic devices has presented a revolutionary means to manipulate light at nanoscale. Recently, artificial neural networks (ANNs) have displayed powerful ability in the inverse design of nanophotonic…

In computational design and fabrication, neural networks are becoming important surrogates for bulky forward simulations. A long-standing, intertwined question is that of inverse design: how to compute a design that satisfies a desired…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Navid Ansari , Hans-Peter Seidel , Vahid Babaei

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…

The light scattering of multilayer nanoparticles can be solved by Maxwell equations. However, it is difficult to solve the inverse design of multilayer nanoparticles by using the traditional trial-and-error method. Here, we present a method…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-19 Cankun Qiu , Zhi Luo , Xia Wu , Huidong Yang , Bo Huang

Designing nanophotonic devices with minimal human intervention has gained substantial attention due to the complexity and precision required in modern optical technologies. While inverse design techniques typically rely on conventional…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-10 Amirhossein Fallah , Constantine Sideris

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

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

The inverse design of microstructures plays a pivotal role in optimizing metamaterials with specific, targeted physical properties. While traditional forward design methods are constrained by their inability to explore the vast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Tianyang Xue , Haochen Li , Longdu Liu , Paul Henderson , Pengbin Tang , Lin Lu , Jikai Liu , Haisen Zhao , Hao Peng , Bernd Bickel

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.…

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…

Deep learning is a promising, ultra-fast approach for inverse design in nano-optics, but despite fast advancement of the field, the computational cost of dataset generation, as well as of the training procedure itself remains a major…

The inverse design approach in magnonics exploits the wave nature of magnons and machine learning to develop logical devices with functionalities that exceed the capabilities of analytical methods. While promising for analog, Boolean, and…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-05-26 Andrey A. Voronov , Marcos Cuervo Santos , Florian Bruckner , Dieter Suess , Andrii V. Chumak , Claas Abert

Inverse design in science and engineering involves determining optimal design parameters that achieve desired performance outcomes, a process often hindered by the complexity and high dimensionality of design spaces, leading to significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Luka Grbcic , Juliane Müller , Wibe Albert de Jong