Revisiting the design strategies for metasurfaces: fundamental physics, optimization, and beyond

S So, J Mun, J Park, J Rho - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Over the last two decades, the capabilities of metasurfaces in light modulation with
subwavelength thickness have been proven, and metasurfaces are expected to miniaturize …

3D printed optics and photonics: Processes, materials and applications

H Gao, J An, CK Chua, D Bourell, CN Kuo, DTH Tan - Materials today, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Interest in 3D (3-dimensional) printed optics and photonics by both industry and
academic researchers is burgeoning, due to the unique features availed by 3D printing not …

Empowering metasurfaces with inverse design: principles and applications

Z Li, R Pestourie, Z Lin, SG Johnson, F Capasso - Acs Photonics, 2022 - ACS Publications
Conventional human-driven methods face limitations in designing complex functional
metasurfaces. Inverse design is poised to empower metasurface research by embracing fast …

[HTML][HTML] Inverse design enables large-scale high-performance meta-optics reshaping 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 in photonics by topology optimization: tutorial

RE Christiansen, O Sigmund - JOSA B, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Topology optimization (TopOpt) methods for inverse design of nano-photonic systems have
recently become extremely popular and are presented in various forms and under various …

Physical limits in electromagnetism

P Chao, B Strekha, R Kuate Defo, S Molesky… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Photonic devices play an increasingly important role in advancing physics and engineering.
Although improvements in nanofabrication and computational methods have driven …

Intelligent designs in nanophotonics: from optimization towards inverse creation

N Wang, W Yan, Y Qu, S Ma, SZ Li, M Qiu - PhotoniX, 2021 - Springer
Applying intelligence algorithms to conceive nanoscale meta-devices becomes a flourishing
and extremely active scientific topic over the past few years. Inverse design of functional …

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 …

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 …

High-performance hybrid time/frequency-domain topology optimization for large-scale photonics inverse design

AM Hammond, A Oskooi, M Chen, Z Lin… - Optics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
We present a photonics topology optimization (TO) package capable of addressing a wide
range of practical photonics design problems, incorporating robustness and manufacturing …