activity
20242026
collaborators

6 papers

math.NA2026

A Mixed Discrete Cosserat Rod Formulation

Tianxiang Dai, Marco Herrmann, Jonas Breuling +2

In this communication we propose a discrete Cosserat rod formulation in which a slender elastic rod is represented as a chain of rigid bodies (nodes) coupled by compliant elastic f…

physics.optics2026

Meter-long broadband chirped Bragg gratings for on-chip dispersion control and pulse shaping

Zhaoting Geng, Yitian Tong, Chuchen Zhang +12

Precise on-chip dispersion control is essential for advanced integrated photonic technologies, enabling applications ranging from high-speed communications and sensing to signal pr…

physics.optics2025

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…

physics.optics2025

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…

physics.app-ph2025

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…

cs.LG2024

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…