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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| 6 | "type": "design", |
| 7 | "benchmark": { |
| 8 | "task": "Maximize efficiency × (1 − uniformity error) of a 7 × 7 beam splitter", |
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| 10 | "name": "Total efficiency × (1 − uniformity error)", |
| 11 | "better": "higher" |
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| 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", |
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