• Photonics Research
  • Vol. 9, Issue 4, B104 (2021)
Jinran Qie1, Erfan Khoram2, Dianjing Liu2, Ming Zhou2, and Li Gao3、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, Washington University, St Louis, Missouri 63130, USA
  • 2Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
  • 3Key Laboratory for Organic Electronics & Information Displays (KLOEID), Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), and School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications, Nanjing 210046, China
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    DOI: 10.1364/PRJ.413567 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Jinran Qie, Erfan Khoram, Dianjing Liu, Ming Zhou, Li Gao. Real-time deep learning design tool for far-field radiation profile[J]. Photonics Research, 2021, 9(4): B104 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    The connection between Maxwell’s equations and artificial neural networks has revolutionized the capability and efficiency of nanophotonic design. Such a machine learning tool can help designers avoid iterative, time-consuming electromagnetic simulations and even allows long-desired inverse design. However, when we move from conventional design methods to machine-learning-based tools, there is a steep learning curve that is not as user-friendly as commercial simulation software. Here, we introduce a real-time, web-based design tool that uses a trained deep neural network (DNN) for accurate far-field radiation prediction, which shows great potential and convenience for antenna and metasurface designs. We believe our approach provides a user-friendly, readily accessible deep learning design tool, with significantly reduced difficulty and greatly enhanced efficiency. The web-based tool paves the way to present complicated machine learning results in an intuitive way. It also can be extended to other nanophotonic designs based on DNNs and replace conventional full-wave simulations with a much simpler interface.

    Jinran Qie, Erfan Khoram, Dianjing Liu, Ming Zhou, Li Gao. Real-time deep learning design tool for far-field radiation profile[J]. Photonics Research, 2021, 9(4): B104
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