General Inverse Design of Thin-Film Metamaterials With Convolutional Neural Networks

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Autori principali: Lininger, Andrew, Hinczewski, Michael, Strangi, Giuseppe
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author Lininger, Andrew
Hinczewski, Michael
Strangi, Giuseppe
author_facet Lininger, Andrew
Hinczewski, Michael
Strangi, Giuseppe
contents The design of metamaterials which support unique optical responses is the basis for most thin-film nanophotonics applications. In practice this inverse design problem can be difficult to solve systematically due to the large design parameter space associated with general multi-layered systems. We apply convolutional neural networks, a subset of deep machine learning, as a tool to solve this inverse design problem for metamaterials composed of stacks of thin films. We demonstrate the remarkable ability of neural networks to probe the large global design space (up to $10^{12}$ possible parameter combinations) and resolve all relationships between metamaterial structure and corresponding ellipsometric and reflectance / transmittance spectra. The applicability of the approach is further expanded to include the inverse design of synthetic engineered spectra in general design scenarios. Furthermore, this approach is compared with traditional optimization methods. We find an increase in the relative optimization efficiency of the networks with increasing total layer number, revealing the advantage of the machine learning approach in many-layered systems where traditional methods become impractical.
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spellingShingle General Inverse Design of Thin-Film Metamaterials With Convolutional Neural Networks
Lininger, Andrew
Hinczewski, Michael
Strangi, Giuseppe
Computational Physics
Optics
The design of metamaterials which support unique optical responses is the basis for most thin-film nanophotonics applications. In practice this inverse design problem can be difficult to solve systematically due to the large design parameter space associated with general multi-layered systems. We apply convolutional neural networks, a subset of deep machine learning, as a tool to solve this inverse design problem for metamaterials composed of stacks of thin films. We demonstrate the remarkable ability of neural networks to probe the large global design space (up to $10^{12}$ possible parameter combinations) and resolve all relationships between metamaterial structure and corresponding ellipsometric and reflectance / transmittance spectra. The applicability of the approach is further expanded to include the inverse design of synthetic engineered spectra in general design scenarios. Furthermore, this approach is compared with traditional optimization methods. We find an increase in the relative optimization efficiency of the networks with increasing total layer number, revealing the advantage of the machine learning approach in many-layered systems where traditional methods become impractical.
title General Inverse Design of Thin-Film Metamaterials With Convolutional Neural Networks
topic Computational Physics
Optics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.01952