Neural operator-based surrogate solver for free-form electromagnetic inverse design

Y Augenstein, T Repan, C Rockstuhl - ACS Photonics, 2023 - ACS Publications
Neural operators have emerged as a powerful tool for solving partial differential equations in
the context of scientific machine learning. Here, we implement and train a modified Fourier …

The Intelligent Design of Silicon Photonic Devices

Z Li, Z Zhou, C Qiu, Y Chen, B Liang… - Advanced Optical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Photonic devices based on silicon waveguides are essential to versatile high‐performance
and low‐cost photonic integrated systems. Extremely complex silicon photonic devices with …

Inverse-designed lithium niobate nanophotonics

C Shang, J Yang, AM Hammond, Z Chen, M Chen… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Lithium niobate-on-insulator (LNOI) is an emerging photonic platform that exhibits favorable
material properties (such as low optical loss, strong nonlinearities, and stability) and enables …

Advances in machine learning optimization for classical and quantum photonics

M Sanchez, C Everly, PA Postigo - JOSA B, 2024 - opg.optica.org
The development and optimization of photonic devices and various other nanostructure
electromagnetic devices present a computationally intensive task. Much optimization relies …

Time-domain topology optimization of arbitrary dispersive materials for broadband 3d nanophotonics inverse design

J Gedeon, E Hassan, A Calà Lesina - ACS Photonics, 2023 - ACS Publications
In the last decades, nanostructures have unlocked myriads of functionalities in
nanophotonics by engineering light–matter interaction beyond what is possible with …

Phase-injected topology optimization for scalable and interferometrically robust photonic integrated circuits

AM Hammond, JB Slaby, MJ Probst, SE Ralph - ACS Photonics, 2022 - ACS Publications
We present a novel device-design methodology that produces interferometrically robust
photonic integrated circuits on commercial foundry platforms. This new approach, which we …

Automated discovery and optimization of 3D topological photonic crystals

S Kim, T Christensen, SG Johnson, M Soljacic - ACS Photonics, 2023 - ACS Publications
Topological photonic crystals have received considerable attention for their ability to
manipulate and guide light in unique ways. They are typically designed by hand based on …

Multi-layer inverse design of vertical grating couplers for high-density, commercial foundry interconnects

AM Hammond, JB Slaby, MJ Probst, SE Ralph - Optics Express, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Density-based topology optimization is used to design large-scale, multi-layer grating
couplers that comply with commercial foundry fabrication constraints while simultaneously …

Validation and characterization of algorithms and software for photonics inverse design

M Chen, RE Christiansen, JA Fan, G Işiklar, J Jiang… - JOSA B, 2024 - opg.optica.org
In this work, we present a reproducible suite of test problems for large-scale optimization
(“inverse design” and “topology optimization”) in photonics, where the prevalence of …

Datasets and benchmarks for nanophotonic structure and parametric design simulations

J Kim, M Li, O Hinder, P Leu - Advances in Neural …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Nanophotonic structures have versatile applications including solar cells, anti-reflective
coatings, electromagnetic interference shielding, optical filters, and light emitting diodes. To …