https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2003.00374/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23742260urn:hackerpapers:mention:2003.00374:23742260Sun, 05 Jul 2020 21:36:19 GMT<p>Bounds for the best possible designs for optical devices: well-studied [0, 1, 2, 3, 4], yet really hard. More specifically, whenever you give a designer a design spec, it is always worth asking, how good is the best possible design for this spec? And, of course, can the designer actually achieve it, or something close to it? This is the question here. In this scenario, the design spec is the optimization problem (what you want to optimize), the designer then gets to choose how to best approach this problem. In this case, you want to give a number that states, independent of how this problem…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2003.00374/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>physics.optics