Spectral transfer-learning-based metasurface design assisted by complex-valued deep neural network

Recently,deep learning has been used to establish the nonlinear and nonintuitive mapping between physical structures and electromagnetic responses of meta-atoms for higher computational efficiency.However,to obtain sufficiently accurate predictions,the conventional deep-learning-based method consumes excessive time to collect the data set,thus hindering its wide application in this interdisciplinary field.We introduce a spectral transfer-learning-based metasurface design method to achieve excellent performance on a small data set with only 1000 samples in the target waveband by utilizing open-source data from another spectral range.We demonstrate three transfer strategies and experimentally quantify their performance,among which the“frozen-none”robustly improves the prediction accuracy by∼26%compared to direct learning.We propose to use a complex-valued deep neural network during the training process to further improve the spectral predicting precision by∼30%compared to its real-valued counterparts.We design several typical teraherz metadevices by employing a hybrid inverse model consolidating this trained target network and a global optimization algorithm.The simulated results successfully validate the capability of our approach.Our work provides a universal methodology for efficient and accurate metasurface design in arbitrary wavebands,which will pave the way toward the automated and mass production of metasurfaces.