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  • Nanophotonics
  • Computational electromagnetics
  • Metasurface design

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  • Computer-automated design has advanced nanophotonic devices.
  • Massively multichannel systems (e.g., metasurfaces, photonic circuits) remain challenging for conventional design methods.
  • Current methods require numerous simulations (forward and adjoint) for gradient computation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop an efficient formalism for the inverse design of massively multichannel nanophotonic systems.
  • To overcome the computational bottleneck of conventional simulation-heavy approaches.
  • To enable the design of complex optical components with multiple functionalities.

Main Methods:

  • Development of a formalism based on the augmented partial factorization method.
  • Achieving objective function and gradient computation in a single or few simulations.
  • Applying the method to inverse design a metasurface beam splitter.

Main Results:

  • Over two orders of magnitude speedup in computation.
  • Significant reduction in memory usage.
  • Successful inverse design of a metasurface beam splitter for 3D sensing applications.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed formalism significantly accelerates the inverse design of massively multichannel nanophotonic systems.
  • This method is crucial for developing advanced optical components like metasurface beam splitters.
  • Enables efficient design for a broad range of multichannel optical systems.