Recent years have witnessed promising artificial intelligence (AI) applications in many disciplines, including optics, engineering, medicine, economics, and education. In particular, the synergy of AI and meta-optics has greatly benefited both fields. Meta-optics are advanced flat optics with novel functions and light-manipulation abilities. The optical properties can be engineered with a unique design to meet various optical demands. This review offers comprehensive coverage of meta-optics and artificial intelligence in synergy. After providing an overview of AI and meta-optics, we categorize and discuss the recent developments integrated by these two topics, namely AI for meta-optics and meta-optics for AI. The former describes how to apply AI to the research of meta-optics for design, simulation, optical information analysis, and application. The latter reports the development of the optical Al system and computation via meta-optics. This review will also provide an in-depth discussion of the challenges of this interdisciplinary field and indicate future directions. We expect that this review will inspire researchers in these fields and benefit the next generation of intelligent optical device design.

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元光学中的人工智能

近年来，人工智能 (AI) 在许多学科中的应用前景广阔，包括光学、工程学、医学、经济学和教育学。特别是，人工智能和元光学的协同作用使这两个领域都受益匪浅。超光学是具有新颖功能和光操纵能力的高级平面光学器件。可以通过独特的设计来设计光学特性以满足各种光学需求。这篇综述全面介绍了元光学和人工智能的协同作用。在概述了 AI 和元光学之后，我们对这两个主题整合的最新发展进行了分类和讨论，即 AI for meta-optics 和 meta-optics for AI。前者描述了如何将AI应用到元光学研究中进行设计、仿真、光学信息分析和应用。后者报告了光学 Al 系统的发展和通过元光学进行的计算。这篇综述还将深入讨论这一跨学科领域的挑战，并指明未来的方向。我们期望这篇综述能够对这些领域的研究人员有所启发，并有利于下一代智能光学设备的设计。