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    Area of Science:

    • Optics and Photonics
    • Computational Materials Science

    Background:

    • Designing multilayer thin films for specific optical responses is complex due to numerous variables.
    • Computational demands hinder rapid design and optimization of advanced thin-film structures.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To introduce TMM-Fast, a Python package for efficient, parallelized computation of optical properties in multilayer thin films.
    • To facilitate faster experimentation with new optimization techniques for thin-film design.

    Main Methods:

    • Parallelized computation of light reflection and transmission using the Transfer Matrix Method (TMM-Fast).
    • Integration of PyTorch Autograd for analytical gradient computation (TMM-Torch).
    • Development of an OpenAI Gym environment for reinforcement learning-based thin-film configuration optimization.

    Main Results:

    • Significantly reduced computational time for optical response calculations.
    • Enabled feasible generation of datasets for machine learning applications.
    • Provided tools for effective evolutionary and local optimization strategies.

    Conclusions:

    • TMM-Fast accelerates the design and optimization of complex multilayer thin-film structures.
    • The package supports advanced computational approaches like machine learning and reinforcement learning for optical engineering.