A Differentiable Ray-Wave Framework for Hybrid Refractive-Diffractive System Modeling and Optimization

arXiv:2605.15418 · physics.optics, cs.CV, cs.GR, eess.SP, physics.comp-ph · Submitted 2026-05-14 · Read on arXiv

physics.optics, cs.CV, cs.GR, eess.SP, physics.comp-ph

Submitted: 2026-05-14

Updated: 2026-08-12

Code: https://github.com/jiazhou-cheng/raywave-tracing

Terminology

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• Aperture — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Fidelity — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ab Initio — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Agentic Framework — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Generalizability — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Hybrid System — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transformer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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