Tackling Photonic Inverse Design with Machine Learning

Abstract

Machine learning, as a study of algorithms that automate prediction and decision‐making based on complex data, has become one of the most effective tools in the study of artificial intelligence. In recent years, scientific communities have been gradually merging data‐driven approaches with research, enabling dramatic progress in revealing underlying mechanisms, predicting essential properties, and discovering unconventional phenomena. It is becoming an indispensable tool in the fields of, for instance, quantum physics, organic chemistry, and medical imaging. Very recently, machine learning has been adopted in the research of photonics and optics as an alternative approach to address the inverse design problem. In this report, the fast advances of machine‐learning‐enabled photonic design strategies in the past few years are summarized. In particular, deep learning methods, a subset of machine learning algorithms, dealing with intractable high degrees‐of‐freedom structure design are focused upon.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Jan 07, 2021
Source ID
10.1002/advs.202002923

Entities

People

  • Dayu Zhu
  • Lakshmi Raju
  • Wenshan Cai
  • Zhaocheng Liu

Organizations

  • Georgia Tech
  • National Science Foundation
  • Office of Naval Research

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Agent-Based Social Robotics and Mobile-Assisted Learning in Virtual Environments.
  • Optical Physics and Photonics.
  • Theoretical Analysis.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Machine Learning Algorithms
  • AI & ML - Neural Networks
  • Quantum Computing