Fast Electromagnetic Field Pattern Calculation with Fourier Neural Operators

Calculating the field pattern arising from an array of radiating sources is a central problem in Computational ElectroMagnetics (CEM) and a critical operation for designing and developing antenna systems. Yet, it is a computationally expensive operation when using traditional numerical approaches, including finite-difference in the time and spectral domains. To address this issue, we develop a new data-driven surrogate model for fast and accurate calculation of the field radiation pattern. The method is based on the Fourier Neural Operator (FNO) technique. We show that we achieve a performance improvement of 31x when compared to the performance of the Meep CEM solver when running on a desktop laptop CPU at the cost of a small accuracy loss.