Deep learning in metasurfaces: from automated design to adaptive metadevices

Yasir Saifullah; Nanxuan Wu; Huaping Wang; Bin Zheng; Chao Qian; Hongsheng Chen

doi:10.1117/1.AP.7.3.034005

Advanced Photonics, Volume. 7, Issue 3, 034005(2025)

Deep learning in metasurfaces: from automated design to adaptive metadevices

Yasir Saifullah1...2,3,†, Nanxuan Wu1, Huaping Wang4, Bin Zheng1,2,3, Chao Qian1,*, and Hongsheng Chen1,23,* |Show fewer author(s)

Author Affiliations

¹Zhejiang University, ZJU-UIUC Institute, Interdisciplinary Center for Quantum Information, State Key Laboratory of Extreme Photonics and Instrumentation, Hangzhou, China

²Zhejiang University, ZJU-Hangzhou Global Science and Technology Innovation Center, Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Intelligent Electromagnetic Control and Advanced Electronic Integration, Hangzhou, China

³Zhejiang University, Jinhua Institute of Zhejiang University, Jinhua, China

⁴Zhejiang University, Institute of Marine Electronics Engineering, Ocean College, Key Laboratory of Ocean Observation-Imaging Testbed of Zhejiang Province, Hangzhou, China

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