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most citedInverse Design of Grating Couplers Using the Policy Gradient Method from Reinforcement Learning

37 citations · 62 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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physics.optics2024★ 6 cited

Photonic KAN: a Kolmogorov-Arnold network inspired efficient photonic neuromorphic architecture

Yiwei Peng, Sean Hooten, Xinling Yu +7

Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KAN) models were recently proposed and claimed to provide improved parameter scaling and interpretability compared to conventional multilayer perceptron…

cs.LG2024★ 2 cited

Separable Operator Networks

Xinling Yu, Sean Hooten, Ziyue Liu +4

Operator learning has become a powerful tool in machine learning for modeling complex physical systems governed by partial differential equations (PDEs). Although Deep Operator Net…

cs.CE2023★ 3 cited

Automatic differentiation accelerated shape optimization approaches to photonic inverse design on rectilinear simulation grids

Sean Hooten, Peng Sun, Liron Gantz +3

Shape optimization approaches to inverse design offer low-dimensional, physically-guided parameterizations of structures by representing them as combinations of shape primitives. H…

physics.optics2022★ 14 cited

Adjoint optimization of polarization-splitting grating couplers

Peng Sun, Thomas Van Vaerenbergh, Sean Hooten +1

We have designed a polarization-splitting grating coupler (PSGC) in silicon-oninsulator (SOI) that has 1.2 dB peak loss in numerical simulations, which is the best simulated perfor…

physics.comp-ph2021★ 37 cited

Inverse Design of Grating Couplers Using the Policy Gradient Method from Reinforcement Learning

Sean Hooten, Raymond G. Beausoleil, Thomas Van Vaerenbergh

We present a proof-of-concept technique for the inverse design of electromagnetic devices motivated by the policy gradient method in reinforcement learning, named PHORCED (PHotonic…