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Inverse design enables large-scale high-performance meta-optics reshaping virtual reality

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  • Zhaoyi Li

    (Harvard University)

  • Raphaël Pestourie

    (Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

  • Joon-Suh Park

    (Harvard University
    Nanophotonics Research Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology)

  • Yao-Wei Huang

    (Harvard University
    National University of Singapore
    National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University)

  • Steven G. Johnson

    (Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

  • Federico Capasso

    (Harvard University)

Abstract

Meta-optics has achieved major breakthroughs in the past decade; however, conventional forward design faces challenges as functionality complexity and device size scale up. Inverse design aims at optimizing meta-optics design but has been currently limited by expensive brute-force numerical solvers to small devices, which are also difficult to realize experimentally. Here, we present a general inverse-design framework for aperiodic large-scale (20k × 20k λ2) complex meta-optics in three dimensions, which alleviates computational cost for both simulation and optimization via a fast approximate solver and an adjoint method, respectively. Our framework naturally accounts for fabrication constraints via a surrogate model. In experiments, we demonstrate aberration-corrected metalenses working in the visible with high numerical aperture, poly-chromatic focusing, and large diameter up to the centimeter scale. Such large-scale meta-optics opens a new paradigm for applications, and we demonstrate its potential for future virtual-reality platforms by using a meta-eyepiece and a laser back-illuminated micro-Liquid Crystal Display.

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  • Zhaoyi Li & Raphaël Pestourie & Joon-Suh Park & Yao-Wei Huang & Steven G. Johnson & Federico Capasso, 2022. "Inverse design enables large-scale high-performance meta-optics reshaping virtual reality," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 13(1), pages 1-11, December.
  • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:13:y:2022:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-022-29973-3
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-29973-3
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