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 use of optical interconnects has burgeoned as a promising technology that can address
the limits of data transfer for future high-performance silicon chips. Recent pushes to …

The development of inverse design, where computational optimization techniques are used
to design devices based on certain specifications, has led to the discovery of many compact …

Multimode silicon photonics is attracting more and more attention because the introduction
of higher-order modes makes it possible to increase the channel number for data …

Gradient-based inverse design in photonics has already achieved remarkable results in
designing small-footprint, high-performance optical devices. The adjoint variable method …

Nanophotonic devices can provide solutions to challenges in energy conversion,
information technologies, chemical or biological sensing, quantum computing, and secure …

A dual‐polarization 10‐channel mode (de) multiplexer is proposed and realized with
cascaded dual‐core adiabatic tapers on a silicon‐on‐insulator (SOI) platform. The mode …

Maxwell's equations govern light propagation and its interaction with matter. Therefore, the
solution of Maxwell's equations using computational electromagnetic simulations plays a …

A major difficulty in applying computational design methods to nanophotonic devices is
ensuring that the resulting designs are fabricable. Here, we describe a general inverse …