Ceviche Challenges: Photonic Inverse Design Suite

The ceviche_challenges module contains a suite of photonic inverse design challenge problems, backed by the open source ceviche simulator. These challenge problems may be used to benchmark the ability of different topology optimization algorithms to design relevant photonic components. The suite includes several integrated photonic components, including a waveguide beam splitter, a waveguide mode converter, a waveguide bend, and a wavelength division multiplexer (WDM).

The code in this package was used to produce the results in the Inverse design of photonic devices with strict foundry fabrication constraints paper.

Challenge problems

Waveguide bend

Beam splitter

Mode converter

Wavelength division multiplexer (WDM)

Citation

@article{schubert_inverse_2022,
  title={Inverse design of photonic devices with strict foundry fabrication constraints},
  author={Schubert, Martin F and Cheung, Alfred KC and Williamson, Ian AD and Spyra, Aleksandra and Alexander, David H},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.12965},
  year={2022}
}