Computational inverse design for cascaded systems of metasurface optics

被引:72
作者
Backer, Adam S. [1 ]
机构
[1] Sandia Natl Labs, POB 5800, Albuquerque, NM 87185 USA
关键词
MULTICOLOR LOCALIZATION MICROSCOPY; PHASE-RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; BAND ACHROMATIC METALENS; DIELECTRIC METASURFACES; OPTIMIZATION; POLARIZATION; RESOLUTION; LENSES; ELEMENTS; ANGLE;
D O I
10.1364/OE.27.030308
中图分类号
O43 [光学];
学科分类号
070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
Metasurfaces are an emerging technology that may supplant many of the conventional optics found in imaging devices, displays, and precision scientific instruments. Here, we develop a method for designing optical systems composed of multiple unique metasurfaces aligned in sequence and separated by distances much larger than the design wavelengths. Our approach is based on computational inverse design, also known as the adjoint-gradient method. This technique enables thousands or millions of independent design variables (e.g., the shapes of individual meta-atoms) to be optimized in parallel, with little or no intervention required by the user. The assumptions underlying our method are as follows: we use the local periodic approximation to determine the phase-response of a given meta-atom, we use the scalar wave approximation to propagate light fields between metasurface layers, and we do not consider multiple reflections between metasurface layers (analogous to a sequential-optics ray-tracer). To demonstrate the broad applicability of our method, we use it to design an achromatic doublet metasurface lens, a spectrally-multiplexed holographic element, and an ultra-compact optical neural network for classifying handwritten digits. (C) 2019 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement
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页码:30308 / 30331
页数:24
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