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Recently, gradient index cavities, or so-called transformation cavities, designed by conformal transformation optics have been studied to support resonant modes with both high Q-factors and emission directionality. We propose a new design…

Optics · Physics 2021-04-21 Jung-Wan Ryu , Jinhang Cho

This paper proposes an inverse design scheme for resistive heaters. By adjusting the spatial distribution of a binary electrical resistivity map, the scheme enables objective-driven optimization of heaters to achieve pre-defined…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-09-05 Khoi Phuong Dao , Juejun Hu

Second-order nonlinear effects, such as second-harmonic generation, can be strongly enhanced in nanofabricated photonic materials when both fundamental and harmonic frequencies are spatially and temporally confined. Practically designing…

Van der Waals (vdW) materials have garnered growing interest for use as nanophotonic building blocks that offer precise control over light-matter interaction at the nanoscale, such as optical metasurfaces hosting sharp quasi-bound states in…

Control over the shape and polarization of the beam emitted by a laser source is important in applications such as optical communications, optical manipulation and high-resolution optical imaging. In this paper, we present the inverse…

Optics · Physics 2022-07-21 Iago Diez , Andrey Krysa , Isaac J. Luxmoore

On-demand vibration mitigation in a mechanical system needs the suitable design of multiscale metastructures, involving complex unit cells. In this study, immersing in the world of patterns and examining the structural details of some…

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

A new electromagnetic cavity structure, a lattice of 3D cavities consisting of an array of posts and gaps is presented. The individual cavity elements are based on the cylindrical re-entrant (or Klystron) cavity. We show that these cavities…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-22 Maxim Goryachev , Michael E. Tobar

We introduce an inverse design framework based on artificial neural networks, genetic algorithms, and tight-binding calculations, capable to optimize the very large configuration space of nanoelectronic devices. Our non-linear optimization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-25 Kevin Ryczko , Pierre Darancet , Isaac Tamblyn

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

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

Inverse design of metasurfaces for the joint optimization of optical modulation and algorithmic decoding in computational optics presents significant challenges, especially in applications such as hyperspectral imaging. We introduce a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-28 Rongzhou Chen , Haitao Nie , Shuo Zhu , Yaping Zhao , Chutian Wang , Edmund Y. Lam

We demonstrate a new method that yields orders-of-magnitude acceleration in inverse design (e.g. topology optimization) of high-$Q$ resonant cavities to maximize the local density of states (LDOS), and which is also applicable to other…

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

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

Metasurfaces advanced the field of optics by reducing the thickness of optical components and merging multiple functionalities into a single layer device. However, this generally comes with a reduction in performance, especially for…

Optical cavities find diverse uses in lasers, frequency combs, optomechanics, and optical signal processors. Complete reconfigurability of the resonant frequency as well as the loss enables development of generic field programmable cavities…

Optics · Physics 2023-01-31 Aneesh Dash , Viphretuo Mere , S. K. Selvaraja , A. K. Naik

Self-folding is an emerging paradigm for the inverse design of three-dimensional structures. While most efforts have concentrated on the shape of the net, our approach introduces a new design dimension-bond specificity between the edges. We…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-01-14 Diogo E. P. Pinto , Nuno A. M. Araújo , Petr Šulc , John Russo

Inverse electromagnetic design has emerged as a way of efficiently designing active and passive electromagnetic devices. This maturing strategy involves optimizing the shape or topology of a device in order to improve a figure of merit--a…

Optics · Physics 2018-12-05 Andrew Michaels , Eli Yablonovitch

Mechanical metamaterials have continued to offer unprecedented tunability in mechanical properties, but most designs to date have prioritized attaining high stiffness and strength while sacrificing deformability. The emergence of woven…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-21 Molly Carton , James Utama Surjadi , Bastien F. G. Aymon , Carlos M. Portela