Deep neural networks for the evaluation and design of photonic devices

J Jiang, M Chen, JA Fan - Nature Reviews Materials, 2021‏ - nature.com
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 …

Free-form optimization of nanophotonic devices: from classical methods to deep learning

J Park, S Kim, DW Nam, H Chung, CY Park… - Nanophotonics, 2022‏ - degruyter.com
Nanophotonic devices have enabled microscopic control of light with an unprecedented
spatial resolution by employing subwavelength optical elements that can strongly interact …

Inverse design enables large-scale high-performance meta-optics resha** virtual reality

Z Li, R Pestourie, JS Park, YW Huang… - Nature …, 2022‏ - nature.com
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 of photonic crystals through automatic differentiation

M Minkov, IAD Williamson, LC Andreani, D Gerace… - Acs …, 2020‏ - ACS Publications
Gradient-based inverse design in photonics has already achieved remarkable results in
designing small-footprint, high-performance optical devices. The adjoint variable method …

On-chip integrated laser-driven particle accelerator

NV Sapra, KY Yang, D Vercruysse, KJ Leedle… - Science, 2020‏ - science.org
Particle accelerators represent an indispensable tool in science and industry. However, the
size and cost of conventional radio-frequency accelerators limit the utility and reach of this …

Photonic topology optimization with semiconductor-foundry design-rule constraints

AM Hammond, A Oskooi, SG Johnson, SE Ralph - Optics Express, 2021‏ - opg.optica.org
We present a unified density-based topology-optimization framework that yields integrated
photonic designs optimized for manufacturing constraints including all those of commercial …

Nanophotonic inverse design with SPINS: Software architecture and practical considerations

L Su, D Vercruysse, J Skarda, NV Sapra… - Applied Physics …, 2020‏ - pubs.aip.org
This paper presents a computational nanophotonic design library for gradient-based
optimization called the Stanford Photonic INverse design Software (SPINS). Borrowing the …

Inverse design of digital nanophotonic devices using the adjoint method

K Wang, X Ren, W Chang, L Lu, D Liu… - Photonics Research, 2020‏ - opg.optica.org
A high-efficiency inverse design of “digital” subwavelength nanophotonic devices using the
adjoint method is proposed. We design a single-mode 3 dB power divider and a dual-mode …

Tandem neural network based design of multiband antennas

A Gupta, EA Karahan, C Bhat… - … on Antennas and …, 2023‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a deep neural network-based framework for designing multiband microstrip
antennas given a desired impedance matching spectrum. The approach enables a design …

Software-defined nanophotonic devices and systems empowered by machine learning

Y Xu, B **ong, W Ma, Y Liu - Progress in Quantum Electronics, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Nanophotonic devices, such as metasurfaces and silicon photonic components, have been
progressively demonstrated to be efficient and versatile alternatives to their bulky …