End-to-End Nanophotonic Inverse Design for Imaging and Polarimetry
arXiv:2006.09145
Abstract
By co-designing a meta-optical front end in conjunction with an image-processing back end, we demonstrate noise sensitivity and compactness substantially superior to either an optics-only or a computation-only approach, illustrated by two examples: subwavelength imaging and reconstruction of the full polarization coherence matrices of multiple light sources. Our end-to-end inverse designs couple the solution of the full Maxwell equations---exploiting all aspects of wave physics arising in subwavelength scatterers---with inverse-scattering algorithms in a single large-scale optimization involving degrees of freedom. The resulting structures scatter light in a way that is radically different from either a conventional lens or a random microstructure, and suppress the noise sensitivity of the inverse-scattering computation by several orders of magnitude. Incorporating the full wave physics is especially crucial for detecting spectral and polarization information that is discarded by geometric optics and scalar diffraction theory.
arXiv comment19 pages, 4 figures. Initially submitted on June 16, 2020. Expanded version submitted on October 10, 2020
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