2023 · 12·SPIE · AOPC 2023 (AI in Optics & Photonics)·Beijing·Best Student Paper

Inverse design of a dual-band wavelength demultiplexing power splitter based on two-step hybrid binary-analog optimization

A. Sun, et al.
Fudan University

TL;DR A two-step hybrid binary-analog optimization scheme yields fabrication-ready dual-band wavelength demultiplexing splitters that pure gradient methods routinely miss.

Highlights

Two-step optimization breaks pure-gradient local minima
Best Student Paper Award at AOPC 2023

Citation

A. Sun et al., "Inverse design of a dual-band wavelength demultiplexing power splitter based on two-step hybrid binary-analog optimization," AOPC 2023: AI in Optics and Photonics, SPIE, Dec. 2023.