A newcomer's guide to deep learning for inverse design in nano-photonics

A Khaireh-Walieh, D Langevin, P Bennet, O Teytaud… - …, 2023 - degruyter.com
Nanophotonic devices manipulate light at sub-wavelength scales, enabling tasks such as
light concentration, routing, and filtering. Designing these devices to achieve precise light …

Deep neural networks for inverse design of nanophotonic devices

K Kojima, MH Tahersima, T Koike-Akino… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Deep learning is now playing a major role in designing photonic devices, including
nanostructured photonics. In this article, we investigate three models for designing …

Analysis of deep neural network models for inverse design of silicon photonic grating coupler

X Tu, W Xie, Z Chen, MF Ge, T Huang… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been introduced to achieve the rapid design of photonic
devices by creating a nonlinear function mapping the geometric structure to the optical …

Parameterized reinforcement learning for optical system optimization

H Wankerl, ML Stern, A Mahdavi… - Journal of Physics D …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Engineering a physical system to feature designated characteristics states an inverse design
problem, which is often determined by several discrete and continuous parameters. If such a …

Design of compact, broadband, and low-loss silicon waveguide bends with radius under 500 nm

Z Zhang, Y Shi, B Shao, T Zhou, F Luo, Y Xu - Photonics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Waveguide bend is an indispensable component in the on-chip compact photonic integrated
circuits (PICs) and the minimum bend size greatly limits the increase of integration density of …

Deep learning accelerated discovery of photonic power dividers

G Alagappan, CE Png - Nanophotonics, 2023 - degruyter.com
This article applies deep learning-accelerated inverse design algorithms and discovers a
spectrum of photonic power dividers with exceptional performance metrics despite the …

Ultra-compact integrated photonic devices enabled by machine learning and digital metamaterials

S Banerji, A Majumder, A Hamrick, R Menon… - OSA …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate three ultra-compact integrated-photonics devices, which are designed via a
machine-learning algorithm coupled with finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) modeling. By …

Ultra-Compact and Broadband Nano-Integration Optical Phased Array

Z Wang, J Feng, H Li, Y Zhang, Y Wu, Y Hu, J Wu… - Nanomaterials, 2023 - mdpi.com
The on-chip nano-integration of large-scale optical phased arrays (OPAs) is a development
trend. However, the current scale of integrated OPAs is not large because of the limitations …

Reconfigurable and programmable optical devices with phase change materials Sb2S3 and Sb2Se3

W Jia, R Menon… - Active Photonic Platforms …, 2022 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Recently proposed nonvolatile chalcogenide phase change materials Sb 2 Se 3 and Sb 2 S
3 exhibit low loss and significant refractive index modulation in the visible and NIR, which …

Ultra-compact design of power splitters via machine learning

S Banerji, A Hamrick, A Majumder… - 2020 IEEE Photonics …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We demonstrate efficient ultra-compact power splitters designed via machine learning
algorithm viz. binary-additive reinforcement learning algorithm. Two different splitter …