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  • Photonics and Nanotechnology
  • Computational Design

Background:

  • Conventional meta-optics design faces scalability challenges with increasing complexity and size.
  • Current inverse design methods are computationally expensive and limited to small-scale devices, hindering experimental realization.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To present a general inverse-design framework for large-scale, complex meta-optics in three dimensions.
  • To overcome computational limitations in simulating and optimizing meta-optics.
  • To incorporate fabrication constraints into the design process.

Main Methods:

  • Developed a fast approximate solver to reduce simulation costs.
  • Employed an adjoint method for efficient optimization.
  • Integrated a surrogate model to account for fabrication constraints.

Main Results:

  • Demonstrated aberration-corrected metalenses operating in the visible spectrum.
  • Achieved high numerical aperture, polychromatic focusing, and centimeter-scale diameters.
  • Successfully fabricated large-scale meta-optics with complex functionalities.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed framework enables the design of large-scale, complex meta-optics, overcoming previous limitations.
  • This advancement opens new possibilities for meta-optics applications, including virtual reality.
  • The demonstrated centimeter-scale meta-optics show significant potential for next-generation optical systems.