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DOAJ_listed: '1'
OA_place: publisher
OA_type: gold
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abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: 'By codesigning a metaoptical front end in conjunction with an image‐processing
    back end, we demonstrate noise sensitivity and compactness substantially superior
    to either an optics‐only or a computation‐only approach, illustrated by two examples:
    subwavelength imaging and reconstruction of the full polarization coherence matrices
    of multiple light sources. Our end‐to‐end inverse designs couple the solution
    of the full Maxwell equations—exploiting all aspects of wave physics arising in
    subwavelength scatterers—with inverse‐scattering algorithms in a single large‐scale
    optimization involving  degrees of freedom. The resulting structures scatter light
    in a way that is radically different from either a conventional lens or a random
    microstructure, and suppress the noise sensitivity of the inverse‐scattering computation
    by several orders of magnitude. Incorporating the full wave physics is especially
    crucial for detecting spectral and polarization information that is discarded
    by geometric optics and scalar diffraction theory.'
article_processing_charge: No
article_type: original
arxiv: 1
author:
- first_name: Zin
  full_name: Lin, Zin
  last_name: Lin
- first_name: Charles
  full_name: Roques-Carmes, Charles
  id: e2e68fc9-6505-11ef-a541-eb4e72cc3e82
  last_name: Roques-Carmes
- first_name: Raphaël
  full_name: Pestourie, Raphaël
  last_name: Pestourie
- first_name: Marin
  full_name: Soljačić, Marin
  last_name: Soljačić
- first_name: Arka
  full_name: Majumdar, Arka
  last_name: Majumdar
- first_name: Steven G.
  full_name: Johnson, Steven G.
  last_name: Johnson
citation:
  ama: Lin Z, Roques-Carmes C, Pestourie R, Soljačić M, Majumdar A, Johnson SG. End‐to‐end
    nanophotonic inverse design for imaging and polarimetry. <i>Nanophotonics</i>.
    2020;10(3):1177-1187. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1515/nanoph-2020-0579">10.1515/nanoph-2020-0579</a>
  apa: Lin, Z., Roques-Carmes, C., Pestourie, R., Soljačić, M., Majumdar, A., &#38;
    Johnson, S. G. (2020). End‐to‐end nanophotonic inverse design for imaging and
    polarimetry. <i>Nanophotonics</i>. Wiley. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1515/nanoph-2020-0579">https://doi.org/10.1515/nanoph-2020-0579</a>
  chicago: Lin, Zin, Charles Roques-Carmes, Raphaël Pestourie, Marin Soljačić, Arka
    Majumdar, and Steven G. Johnson. “End‐to‐end Nanophotonic Inverse Design for Imaging
    and Polarimetry.” <i>Nanophotonics</i>. Wiley, 2020. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1515/nanoph-2020-0579">https://doi.org/10.1515/nanoph-2020-0579</a>.
  ieee: Z. Lin, C. Roques-Carmes, R. Pestourie, M. Soljačić, A. Majumdar, and S. G.
    Johnson, “End‐to‐end nanophotonic inverse design for imaging and polarimetry,”
    <i>Nanophotonics</i>, vol. 10, no. 3. Wiley, pp. 1177–1187, 2020.
  ista: Lin Z, Roques-Carmes C, Pestourie R, Soljačić M, Majumdar A, Johnson SG. 2020.
    End‐to‐end nanophotonic inverse design for imaging and polarimetry. Nanophotonics.
    10(3), 1177–1187.
  mla: Lin, Zin, et al. “End‐to‐end Nanophotonic Inverse Design for Imaging and Polarimetry.”
    <i>Nanophotonics</i>, vol. 10, no. 3, Wiley, 2020, pp. 1177–87, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1515/nanoph-2020-0579">10.1515/nanoph-2020-0579</a>.
  short: Z. Lin, C. Roques-Carmes, R. Pestourie, M. Soljačić, A. Majumdar, S.G. Johnson,
    Nanophotonics 10 (2020) 1177–1187.
date_created: 2026-03-30T12:22:48Z
date_published: 2020-12-23T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2026-04-27T09:29:25Z
day: '23'
ddc:
- '530'
doi: 10.1515/nanoph-2020-0579
extern: '1'
external_id:
  arxiv:
  - '2006.09145'
intvolume: '        10'
issue: '3'
keyword:
- computational imaging
- end-to-end photonic inverse design
- inverse scattering
- meta-optics
- polarimetry
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
  url: https://doi.org/10.1515/nanoph-2020-0579
month: '12'
oa: 1
oa_version: Published Version
page: 1177-1187
publication: Nanophotonics
publication_identifier:
  eissn:
  - 2192-8614
  issn:
  - 2192-8614
publication_status: published
publisher: Wiley
quality_controlled: '1'
scopus_import: '1'
status: public
title: End‐to‐end nanophotonic inverse design for imaging and polarimetry
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  short: CC BY (4.0)
type: journal_article
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