Recent advancements in computational inverse-design approaches—algorithmic techniques for discovering optical structures based on desired functional characteristics …
Recently, integrated optics has gained interest as a hardware platform for implementing machine learning algorithms. Of particular interest are artificial neural networks, since matrix …
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 …
We present an adjoint-based optimization for electromagnetic design. It embeds commercial Maxwell solvers within a steepest-descent inverse-design optimization algorithm. The …
V Liu, S Fan - Computer Physics Communications, 2012 - Elsevier
We describe S4, a free implementation of the Fourier modal method (FMM), which has also been commonly referred to as rigorous coupled wave analysis (RCWA), for simulating …
T Wu, M Menarini, Z Gao, L Feng - Nature Photonics, 2023 - nature.com
Integrated photonics, because of its intrinsic high speed, large bandwidth and unlimited parallelism, is critical in the drive to ease the increasing data traffic. Its technological enabler …
G Veronis, S Fan - Applied physics letters, 2005 - pubs.aip.org
We investigate the performance of bends and splitters in metal-dielectric-metal subwavelength plasmonic waveguides. We show that bends and splitters with no additional …
We demonstrate theoretically the existence of one-way electromagnetic modes in a waveguide formed between a semi-infinite photonic crystal structure and a semi-infinite …