The growing maturity of nanofabrication has ushered massive sophisticated optical
structures available on a photonic chip. The integration of subwavelength-structured …

Recent advancements in computational inverse-design approaches—algorithmic
techniques for discovering optical structures based on desired functional characteristics …

The data-science revolution is poised to transform the way photonic systems are simulated
and designed. Photonic systems are, in many ways, an ideal substrate for machine learning …

Control over the dispersion of the refractive index is essential to the performance of most
modern optical systems. These range from laboratory microscopes to optical fibres and even …

The advent of metasurfaces in recent years has ushered in a revolutionary means to
manipulate the behavior of light on the nanoscale. The design of such structures, to date …

Image processing has become a critical technology in a variety of science and engineering
disciplines. Although most image processing is performed digitally, optical analog …

Augmented reality (AR) displays, as the next generation platform for spatial computing and
digital twins, enable users to view digital images superimposed on real-world environment …

Varifocal lenses, conventionally implemented by changing the axial distance between
multiple optical elements, have a wide range of applications in imaging and optical beam …

During the past few years, metasurfaces have been used to demonstrate optical elements
and systems with capabilities that surpass those of conventional diffractive optics. Here, we …

Conventional human-driven methods face limitations in designing complex functional
metasurfaces. Inverse design is poised to empower metasurface research by embracing fast …