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A Differentiable Ray-Wave Framework for Hybrid Refractive-Diffractive System Modeling and Optimization
Jiazhou Cheng, Margaret Gao, Yixuan Shao +3
Hybrid optical systems combining refractive and diffractive optical responses have the potential to support new types of optical behavior, but they are difficult to model and optim…
Accurate and scalable deep Maxwell solvers using multilevel iterative methods
Chenkai Mao, Jonathan A. Fan
Neural networks have promise as surrogate partial differential equation (PDE) solvers, but it remains a challenge to use these concepts to solve problems with high accuracy and sca…
Near-field optical mode engineering-enabled freeform nonlocal metasurfaces
Zhongjun Jiang, Tianxiang Dai, Shuwei Guo +6
Nanophotonic technologies inherently rely on tailoring light-matter interactions through the excitation and interference of deeply confined optical resonances. However, existing co…
Shaping freeform nanophotonic devices with geometric neural parameterization
Tianxiang Dai, Yixuan Shao, Chenkai Mao +4
Nanophotonic freeform design has the potential to push the performance of optical components to new limits, but there remains a challenge to effectively perform optimization while…
A multi-agentic framework for real-time, autonomous freeform metasurface design
Robert Lupoiu, Yixuan Shao, Tianxiang Dai +3
Innovation in nanophotonics currently relies on human experts who synergize specialized knowledge in photonics and coding with simulation and optimization algorithms, entailing des…
Towards General Neural Surrogate Solvers with Specialized Neural Accelerators
Chenkai Mao, Robert Lupoiu, Tianxiang Dai +2
Surrogate neural network-based partial differential equation (PDE) solvers have the potential to solve PDEs in an accelerated manner, but they are largely limited to systems featur…
WaveY-Net: Physics-augmented deep learning for high-speed electromagnetic simulation and optimization
Mingkun Chen, Robert Lupoiu, Chenkai Mao +4
The calculation of electromagnetic field distributions within structured media is central to the optimization and validation of photonic devices. We introduce WaveY-Net, a hybrid d…
Heuristic Recurrent Algorithms for Photonic Ising Machines
Charles Roques-Carmes, Yichen Shen, Cristian Zanoci +10
The inability of conventional electronic architectures to efficiently solve large combinatorial problems motivates the development of novel computational hardware. There has been m…