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Optical multilayer thin film structures have been widely used in numerous photonic domains and applications. The key component to enable these applications is the inverse design. Different from other photonic structures such as metasurface…

Optics · Physics 2024-09-27 Taigao Ma , Mingqian Ma , L. Jay Guo

The design of metamaterials which support unique optical responses is the basis for most thin-film nanophotonics applications. In practice this inverse design problem can be difficult to solve systematically due to the large design…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-05-25 Andrew Lininger , Michael Hinczewski , Giuseppe Strangi

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.…

Optical multilayer thin film structures have been widely used in numerous photonic applications. However, existing inverse design methods have many drawbacks because they either fail to quickly adapt to different design targets, or are…

Optics · Physics 2024-04-05 Taigao Ma , Haozhu Wang , L. Jay Guo

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

Inverse design problems are common in engineering and materials science. The forward direction, i.e., computing output quantities from design parameters, typically requires running a numerical simulation, such as a FEM, as an intermediate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Jens U. Kreber , Christian Weißenfels , Joerg Stueckler

We demonstrate a high-NA (0.88), ultra-low-f-number (f/0.2714), multi-wavelength (480nm, 550nm and 650nm) multilevel diffractive MicroLens Array (MLA) using inverse design. Each microlens in the array is close-packed with diameter of 70…

Optics · Physics 2024-04-18 Tina M. Hayward , Robert Stewart , Rajesh Menon , Apratim Majumder

Optical materials with special optical properties are widely used in a broad span of technologies, from computer displays to solar energy utilization leading to large dataset accumulated from years of extensive materials synthesis and…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-11-26 Rongzhi Dong , Yabo Dan , Xiang Li , Jianjun Hu

Metamaterials are artificially engineered structures that manipulate electromagnetic waves, having optical properties absent in natural materials. Recently, machine learning for the inverse design of metamaterials has drawn attention.…

The inverse design of optical metasurfaces is a rapidly emerging field that has already shown great promise in miniaturizing conventional optics as well as developing completely new optical functionalities. Such a design process relies on…

Optics · Physics 2020-08-26 Maksym V. Zhelyeznyakov , Steven L. Brunton , Arka Majumdar

The inverse problem of multilayer thin-film optical coatings design represents a complex combinatorial-continuous optimization challenge. We present PRISM (Position-encoded Regressive Inverse Spectral Model), a unified decoder-only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Runtian Wang , Renhao Xue , Baige Chen , Hao Wu

Inverse design of metasurfaces for specific electromagnetic responses requires generating geometries that satisfy stringent spectral constraints while maintaining manufacturability. Conventional design methodologies rely on iterative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Vineetha Joy , Jamshed Palai , Satwik Sahoo , Anshuman Kumar , Amit Sethi , Hema Singh

Metasurfaces are ultra-thin optical elements composed of engineered sub-wavelength structures that enable precise control of light. Their inverse design - determining a geometry that yields a desired optical response - is challenging due to…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-30 Liav Hen , Erez Yosef , Dan Raviv , Raja Giryes , Jacob Scheuer

Optical diffraction tomography relies on solving an inverse scattering problem governed by the wave equation. Classical reconstruction algorithms are based on linear approximations of the forward model (Born or Rytov), which limits their…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2017-09-01 Emmanuel Soubies , Thanh-An Pham , Michael Unser

Diffusion Language Models (DLMs) have recently achieved strong results in text generation. However, their multi-step sampling leads to slow inference, limiting practical use. To address this, we extend Inverse Distillation, a technique…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 David Li , Nikita Gushchin , Dmitry Abulkhanov , Eric Moulines , Ivan Oseledets , Maxim Panov , Alexander Korotin

We consider the inverse problem of determining an optical mask that produces a desired circuit pattern in photolithography. We set the problem as a shape design problem in which the unknown is a two-dimensional domain. The relationship…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-02-14 Luca Rondi , Fadil Santosa

We explore the oscillatory behavior observed in inversion methods applied to large-scale text-to-image diffusion models, with a focus on the "Flux" model. By employing a fixed-point-inspired iterative approach to invert real-world images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Yan Zheng , Zhenxiao Liang , Xiaoyan Cong , Lanqing guo , Yuehao Wang , Peihao Wang , Zhangyang Wang

In the realm of lithography, Optical Proximity Correction (OPC) is a crucial resolution enhancement technique that optimizes the transmission function of photomasks on a pixel-based to effectively counter Optical Proximity Effects (OPE).…

Optics · Physics 2024-12-20 Ruixiang Chen , Yang Zhao , Haoqin Li , Rui Chen

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…

Inverse problems have many applications in science and engineering. In Computer vision, several image restoration tasks such as inpainting, deblurring, and super-resolution can be formally modeled as inverse problems. Recently, methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Sai Bharath Chandra Gutha , Ricardo Vinuesa , Hossein Azizpour
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