Issue 3, 2020

Deep learning: a new tool for photonic nanostructure design

Abstract

Early results have shown the potential of Deep Learning (DL) to disrupt the fields of optical inverse-design, particularly, the inverse design of nanostructures. In the last three years, the complexity of the optical nanostructure being designed and the sophistication of the employed DL methodology have steadily increased. This topical review comprehensively surveys DL based design examples from the nanophotonics literature. Notwithstanding the early success of this approach, its limitations, range of validity and its place among established design techniques remain to be assessed. The review also provides a perspective on the limitations of this approach and emerging research directions. It is hoped that this topical review may help readers to identify unaddressed problems, to choose an initial setup for a specific problem, and, to identify means to improve the performance of existing DL based workflows.

Graphical abstract: Deep learning: a new tool for photonic nanostructure design

Article information

Article type
Minireview
Submitted
16 Okt 2019
Accepted
11 Feb 2020
First published
12 Feb 2020
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

Nanoscale Adv., 2020,2, 1007-1023

Deep learning: a new tool for photonic nanostructure design

R. S. Hegde, Nanoscale Adv., 2020, 2, 1007 DOI: 10.1039/C9NA00656G

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