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Processing of digital images is continuously gaining in volume and relevance, with concomitant demands on data storage, transmission and processing power. Encoding the image information in quantum-mechanical systems instead of classical…

Nanophotonic light-matter interfaces hold great promise for quantum technologies. Enhancing local electromagnetic fields, they enable highly efficient detectors, can help realize optically connected processors, or serve as quantum…

Modern lens designs are capable of resolving >10 gigapixels, while advances in camera frame-rate and hyperspectral imaging have made Terapixel/s data acquisition a real possibility. The main bottlenecks preventing such high data-rate…

Image processing is one of the most immerging and widely growing techniques making it a lively research field. Image processing is converting an image to a digital format and then doing different operations on it, such as improving the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Bhishman Desai , Manish Paliwal , Kapil Kumar Nagwanshi

Advanced electro-optic processing combines electrical control with optical modulation and detection. For quantum photonic applications these processes must be carried out at the single photon level with high efficiency and low noise.…

Centuries of effort to improve imaging has focused on perfecting and combining lenses to obtain better optical performance and new functionalities. The arrival of nanotechnology has brought to this effort engineered surfaces called…

We discuss a new direction in the field of quantum information processing with neutral atoms. It is based on the use of microfabricated optical elements. With these elements versatile and integrated atom optical devices can be created in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. B. J. Buchkremer , R. Dumke , M. Volk , T. Muether , G. Birkl , W. Ertmer

Metasurface enables the generation and manipulation of multiphoton entanglement with flat optics, providing a more efficient platform for large-scale photonic quantum information processing. Here, we show that a single metasurface optical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-26 Kui An , Zilei Liu , Ting Zhang , Siqi Li , You Zhou , Xiao Yuan , Leiran Wang , Wenfu Zhang , Guoxi Wang , He Lu

Digital-to-analog converters (DAC) are indispensable functional units in signal processing instrumentation and wide-band telecommunication links for both civil and military applications. Since photonic systems are capable of high data…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-07 Jiawei Meng , Mario Miscuglio , Jonathan K. George , Aydin Babakhani , Volker J. Sorger

Integrated photonics computing has emerged as a promising approach to overcome the limitations of electronic processors in the post-Moore era, capitalizing on the superiority of photonic systems. However, present integrated photonics…

Optics · Physics 2023-08-15 Yuepeng Wu , Hongxiang Guo , Bowen Zhang , Jifang Qiu , Zhisheng Yang , Jian Wu

In the last years, materializations of neuromorphic circuits based on nanophotonic arrangements have been proposed, which contain complete optical circuits, laser, photodetectors, photonic crystals, optical fibers, flat waveguides, and…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Konstantinos Demertzis , Georgios Papadopoulos , Lazaros Iliadis , Lykourgos Magafas

Lensless imaging enables exceptionally compact fluorescence sensors, advancing applications in \textit{in vivo} imaging and low-cost, point-of-care diagnostics. These sensors require a filter to block the excitation light while passing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-20 Lukas Harris , Micah Roschelle , Jack Bartley , Mekhail Anwar

Optimization problems are central to many important cross-disciplinary applications.In their conventional implementations, the sequential nature of operations imposes strict limitations on the computational efficiency. Here, we discuss how…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-10-09 Ghazi Sarwat Syed , Philipp Schmidt , Frank Brückerhoff-Plückelmann , Jelle Dijkstra , Wolfram H. P Pernice , Abu Sebastian

Artificial intelligence (AI) has rapidly evolved into a critical technology; however, electrical hardware struggles to keep pace with the exponential growth of AI models. Free space optical hardware provides alternative approaches for…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-07 Xue Dong , Kai Lion , Fei Xia , YoonSeok Baek , Ziao Wang , Niao He , Sylvain Gigan

We describe how strong resonant interactions in multimode optomechanical systems can be used to induce controlled nonlinear couplings between single photons and phonons. Combined with linear mapping schemes between photons and phonons,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-07-12 K. Stannigel , P. Komar , S. J. M. Habraken , S. D. Bennett , M. D. Lukin , P. Zoller , P. Rabl

The next generation of smart imaging and vision systems will require compact and tunable optical computing hardware to perform high-speed and low-power image processing. These requirements are driving the development of computing…

Analog neuromorphic photonic processors are uniquely positioned to harness the ultrafast bandwidth and inherent parallelism of light, enabling scalability, on-chip integration and significant improvement in computational performance.…

We show optical waves passing through a nanophotonic medium can perform artificial neural computing. Complex information, is encoded in the wave front of an input light. The medium transforms the wave front to realize sophisticated…

Optics · Physics 2019-06-11 Erfan Khoram , Ang Chen , Dianjing Liu , Lei Ying , Qiqi Wang , Ming yuan , Zongfu Yu

In the paper we present a low cost optical device which splits the light in the focal plane into two separate optical paths and collimates it back into a single image plane, and where a selective information processing ca be carried out.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-24 Adam Popowicz , Tomasz Blachowicz

Modern machine learning applications require huge artificial networks demanding in computational power and memory. Light-based platforms promise ultra-fast and energy-efficient hardware, which may help in realizing next-generation data…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Carlo Michele Valensise , Ivana Grecco , Davide Pierangeli , Claudio Conti