Frontiers in Materials (Jan 2022)

Deep Learning for Photonic Design and Analysis: Principles and Applications

  • Bing Duan,
  • Bei Wu,
  • Jin-hui Chen,
  • Jin-hui Chen,
  • Huanyang Chen,
  • Da-Quan Yang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3389/fmats.2021.791296
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8

Abstract

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Innovative techniques play important roles in photonic structure design and complex optical data analysis. As a branch of machine learning, deep learning can automatically reveal the inherent connections behind the data by using hierarchically structured layers, which has found broad applications in photonics. In this paper, we review the recent advances of deep learning for the photonic structure design and optical data analysis, which is based on the two major learning paradigms of supervised learning and unsupervised learning. In addition, the optical neural networks with high parallelism and low energy consuming are also highlighted as novel computing architectures. The challenges and perspectives of this flourishing research field are discussed.

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