Chiral scatterers designed by Bayesian optimization

Abstract

The helicity or chirality of scattered light is strongly linked to the dual symmetry of the scatterer. The latter depends on chiral materials or on scatterers which are not superimposable with their mirror image. This inherently yields asymmetric structures of various shapes with many degrees of freedom. In order to explore these high dimensional parameter spaces, numerical simulations and especially optimization strategies are a valueable tool. Here, we optimize the emission of chiral line sources in two-dimensional dimer setups using Bayesian optimization. We deduce relevant objective functions from recent theoretical findings for chiral electromagnetic fields and employ rigorous simulations of Maxwell’s equations.