Reverse

Physics

Reverse design approach improves performance and reliability of on-chip spectrometers

(a–c) Example of CSSS using a disordered photonic chip with brute force random selection of structural parameters. (d–g) Spectral reconstructions with four randomly designed spectrometers (S1–S4). Credit: Ang Li et al. In a study published in the journal Engineering, researchers from Nanjing Aerospace University and Zhejiang University pioneer a pioneering approach to on-chip computational spectrometer design that heralds a new…