Feature issue of Journal of the Optical Society of America B

Feature issue on inverse design in photonics. This feature issue reviews state-of-the-art inverse design methodologiesfor large-scale nanoscale photonic devices and also presents some applications of these methodologies to the design of photonics in general and specific related topics including wave guiding and confinement, optical materials, ultra-fast optics, metamaterials, light sources, and amplifiers.