Diffractive beam splitter into a 7 × 7 spot array
Design an etched silica splitter that divides a 632.8 nm beam into a 7 × 7 array of equal beams, maximizing efficiency times uniformity.
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| 4 | + "optics-photonics" | |
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| 6 | + "type": "design", | |
| 7 | + "benchmark": { | |
| 8 | + "task": "Maximize efficiency × (1 − uniformity error) of a 7 × 7 beam splitter", | |
| 9 | + "metric": { | |
| 10 | + "name": "Total efficiency × (1 − uniformity error)", | |
| 11 | + "better": "higher" | |
| 12 | + }, | |
| 13 | + "baseline": { | |
| 14 | + "name": "Best leaderboard design at 400 nm (Schubert, 2024)", | |
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| 21 | + "url": "https://invrs-io.github.io/gym/notebooks/challenges/diffractive_splitter.html", | |
| 22 | + "id": "diffractive_splitter", | |
| 23 | + "curator": "Martin F. Schubert (invrs.io)", | |
| 24 | + "poser": "Martin F. Schubert, after a LightTrans case study", | |
| 25 | + "status": "archived (final leaderboard, October 2025)", | |
| 26 | + "as_of": "2026-10-20", | |
| 27 | + "catalog": "0521c19bbd38" | |
| 28 | + } | |
| 29 | +} | |