End‐to‐end nanophotonic inverse design for imaging and polarimetry

article End‐to‐end nanophotonic inverse design for imaging and polarimetry published yes Zin Lin author Charles Roques-Carmes author e2e68fc9-6505-11ef-a541-eb4e72cc3e82 Raphaël Pestourie author Marin Soljačić author Arka Majumdar author Steven G. Johnson author 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. Wiley2020 eng computational imagingend-to-end photonic inverse designinverse scatteringmeta-opticspolarimetry Nanophotonics 2192-8614 2192-8614 2006.0914510.1515/nanoph-2020-0579 1031177-1187 yes Lin, Zin, et al. “End‐to‐end Nanophotonic Inverse Design for Imaging and Polarimetry.” Nanophotonics, 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>. 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,” Nanophotonics, vol. 10, no. 3. Wiley, pp. 1177–1187, 2020. Lin, Z., Roques-Carmes, C., Pestourie, R., Soljačić, M., Majumdar, A., & Johnson, S. G. (2020). End‐to‐end nanophotonic inverse design for imaging and polarimetry. Nanophotonics. Wiley. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1515/nanoph-2020-0579">https://doi.org/10.1515/nanoph-2020-0579</a> 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.” Nanophotonics. Wiley, 2020. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1515/nanoph-2020-0579">https://doi.org/10.1515/nanoph-2020-0579</a>. 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. Z. Lin, C. Roques-Carmes, R. Pestourie, M. Soljačić, A. Majumdar, S.G. Johnson, Nanophotonics 10 (2020) 1177–1187. Lin Z, Roques-Carmes C, Pestourie R, Soljačić M, Majumdar A, Johnson SG. End‐to‐end nanophotonic inverse design for imaging and polarimetry. Nanophotonics. 2020;10(3):1177-1187. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1515/nanoph-2020-0579">10.1515/nanoph-2020-0579</a> 216422026-03-30T12:22:48Z2026-04-27T09:29:25Z