Machine-learning-assisted inverse design of scattering enhanced metasurface

The scattering enhancement technique has shown prominent potential in various regimes such as satellite communication, Radar Cross Section (RCS) camouflage, and remote sensing. Currently, the scattering enhancement devices based on the metasurface have shown advantages in light weight and better performance. These metasurfaces always possess complex structure, it is hard to achieve through the tradition trial-and-error method which relies on the full-wave numerical simulation. In this paper, a new method combining the machine learning and the evolution optimization algorithm is proposed to design the metasurface retrorefiector (MRF) tbr arbitrary direction incident wave. In this method, a predicting model and a generative inverse design model are constructed and trained, the predicting model is used to evaluate the fitness of each offspring in the genetic algorithm (GA), the generative model is used to initialize the first offspring of the GA by inverse generate the MRF based on the requirements of the designer. With the assistance of these two machine learning models, the evolution optimization algorithm is employed to find the optimal design of the MRF. This approach enables automatic solution of electromagnetic inverse design problems and opens the way to facilitate the optimization of other metadevices. (C) 2022 Optica Publishing Group under the terms of the Optica Open Access Publishing Agreement

Automated summary

The combination of machine learning and evolutionary optimization algorithm proposed in this paper provides an automatic solution for electromagnetic inverse design problems, paving the way for the optimization of other metadevices.