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most citedInverse design in photonics by topology optimization: tutorial

262 citations · 1.2k across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

physics.optics2026

Spectrally smooth broadband response via autocorrelation-constrained inverse design

Johannes Gedeon, Rasmus Ellebæk Christiansen, Ole Sigmund

Time-domain inverse design in photonics is known to be suitable for maximizing the efficiency of optical devices over broad frequency ranges. Objectives commonly used in this conte…

cs.CE2024

On performance bounds for topology optimization

Anna Dalklint, Rasmus E. Christiansen, Ole Sigmund

Topology optimization has matured to become a powerful engineering design tool that is capable of designing extraordinary structures and materials taking into account various physi…

physics.optics2024★ 9 cited

Engineering optical forces through Maxwell stress tensor inverse design

Beñat Martinez de Aguirre Jokisch, Rasmus Ellebæk Christiansen, Ole Sigmund

Precise spatial manipulation of particles via optical forces is essential in many research areas, ranging from biophysics to atomic physics. Central to this effort is the challenge…

physics.optics2024★ 1 cited

Orders-of-magnitude reduction in photonic mode volume by nano-sculpting

Rasmus E. Christiansen, Jesper Mørk, Ole Sigmund

Achieving strong light-matter interaction is important for studying and exploiting several physics phenomena. The light-matter interaction strength depends on the optical field int…

physics.optics2024★ 11 cited

Omnidirectional gradient force optical trapping in dielectric nanocavities by inverse design

Beñat Martinez de Aguirre Jokisch, Benjamin Falkenberg Gøtzsche, Philip Trøst Kristensen +3

Optical trapping enables precise control of individual particles of different sizes, such as atoms, molecules, or nanospheres. Optical tweezers provide free-space omnidirectional o…

physics.optics2022★ 11 cited

Designing Structures that Maximize Spatially Averaged Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectra

Wenjie Yao, Francesc Verdugo, Henry O. Everitt +2

We present a general framework for inverse design of nanopatterned surfaces that maximize spatially averaged surface-enhanced Raman (SERS) spectra from molecules distributed random…

physics.optics2022★ 158 cited

Observation of strong backscattering in valley-Hall photonic topological interface modes

Christian Anker Rosiek, Guillermo Arregui, Anastasiia Vladimirova +4

The unique properties of light underpin the visions of photonic quantum technologies, optical interconnects, and a wide range of novel sensors, but a key limiting factor today is l…

physics.optics2022★ 6 cited

Electronic-photonic circuit crossings

Babak Vosoughi Lahijani, Marcus Albrechtsen, Rasmus Christiansen +4

Electrical control of light in integrated photonics is central to a wide range of research and applications. It is conventionally achieved with thermo-optic tuning, but this suffer…

physics.optics2021★ 20 cited

Trace formulation for photonic inverse design with incoherent sources

Wenjie Yao, Francesc Verdugo, Rasmus E. Christiansen +1

Spatially incoherent light sources, such as spontaneously emitting atoms, naively require Maxwell's equations to be solved many times to obtain the total emission, which becomes co…

physics.optics2021★ 130 cited

Nanometer-scale photon confinement in topology-optimized dielectric cavities

Marcus Albrechtsen, Babak Vosoughi Lahijani, Rasmus Ellebæk Christiansen +8

Nanotechnology enables in principle a precise mapping from design to device but relied so far on human intuition and simple optimizations. In nanophotonics, a central question is h…

physics.optics2021★ 55 cited

Towards 3D-Printed Inverse-Designed Metaoptics

Charles Roques-Carmes, Zin Lin, Rasmus E. Christiansen +5

Optical metasurfaces have been heralded as the platform to integrate multiple functionalities in a compact form-factor, potentially replacing bulky components. A central stepping s…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 21 cited

Topology Optimization of Surface-enhanced Raman Scattering Substrates

Ying Pan, Rasmus E. Christiansen, Jerome Michon +2

Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy is a powerful and versatile sensing method with a detection limit down to the single molecule level. In this article, we demonstrate how topolog…

physics.optics2020★ 64 cited

Computational inverse design for ultra-compact single-piece metalenses free of chromatic and angular aberration

Zin Lin, Charles Roques-Carmes, Rasmus E. Christiansen +2

We present full-Maxwell topology-optimization design of a single-piece multlayer metalens, about 10 wavelengths~ in thickness, that simultaneously focuses over a angu…

cs.MS2020★ 64 cited

Compact 200 line MATLAB code for inverse design in photonics by topology optimization: tutorial

Rasmus E. Christiansen, Ole Sigmund

We provide a compact 200 line MATLAB code demonstrating how topology optimization (TopOpt) as an inverse design tool may be used in photonics, targeting the design of two-dimension…

physics.optics2020★ 262 cited

Inverse design in photonics by topology optimization: tutorial

Rasmus E. Christiansen, Ole Sigmund

Topology optimization methods for inverse design of nano-photonic systems have recently become extremely popular and are presented in various forms and under various names. Approac…

physics.optics2020★ 68 cited

Fullwave Maxwell inverse design of axisymmetric, tunable, and multi-scale multi-wavelength metalenses

Rasmus E. Christiansen, Zin Lin, Charles Roques Carmes +5

We demonstrate new axisymmetric inverse-design techniques that can solve problems radically different from traditional lenses, including \emph{reconfigurable} lenses (that shift a…

physics.optics2019★ 44 cited

Inverse Design of Nanoparticles for Enhanced Raman Scattering

Rasmus E. Christiansen, Jérôme Michon, Mohammed Benzaouia +2

We show that topology optimization (TO) of metallic resonators can lead to improvement in surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) efficiency compared to traditio…

physics.app-ph2019★ 22 cited

Strongly enhanced upconversion in trivalent erbium ions by tailored gold nanostructures: toward high-efficient silicon-based photovoltaics

Jeppe Christiansen, Joakim Vester-Petersen, Søren Roesgaard +6

Upconversion of sub-band-gap photons constitutes a promising way for improving the efficiency of silicon-based solar cells beyond the Shockley-Queisser limit. 1500 to 980 nm upconv…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019

Designing Photonic Topological Insulators with Quantum-Spin-Hall Edge States using Topology Optimization

Rasmus E. Christiansen, Fengwen Wang, Ole Sigmund +1

Designing photonic topological insulators is highly non-trivial because it requires inversion of band symmetries around the band gap, which was so far done using intuition combined…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 128 cited

Topological Insulators by Topology Optimization

Rasmus E. Christiansen, Fengwen Wang, Ole Sigmund

An acoustic topological insulator (TI) is synthesized using topology optimization, a free material inverse design method. The TI appears spontaneously from the optimization process…

physics.optics2018★ 119 cited

Maximizing the quality factor to mode volume ratio for ultra-small photonic crystal cavities

Fengwen Wang, Rasmus Ellebæk Christiansen, Yi Yu +2

Small manufacturing-tolerant photonic crystal cavities are systematically designed using topology optimization to enhance the ratio between quality factor and mode volume, Q/V. For…