Fast multi-channel inverse design through augmented partial factorization
arXiv:2306.09257 · doi:10.1021/acsphotonics.3c00911
Abstract
Computer-automated design and discovery have led to high-performance nanophotonic devices with diverse functionalities. However, massively multi-channel systems such as metasurfaces controlling many incident angles and photonic-circuit components coupling many waveguide modes still present a challenge. Conventional methods require forward simulations and adjoint simulations -- simulations in total -- to compute the objective function and its gradient for a design involving the response to input channels. By generalizing the adjoint method and the recently proposed augmented partial factorization method, here we show how to obtain both the objective function and its gradient for a massively multi-channel system in a single simulation, achieving over-two-orders-of-magnitude speedup and reduced memory usage. We use this method to inverse design a metasurface beam splitter that separates the incident light to the target diffraction orders for all incident angles of interest, a key component of the dot projector for 3D sensing. This formalism enables efficient inverse design for a wide range of multi-channel optical systems.
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