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Fourier synthesis is one of the foundations of physical optics. Spatial Fourier optics is a basis for understanding optical imaging, microscopy, and holography. In conventional Fourier optics, the complex spatial field distribution in the…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-29 Murat Yessenov , Ayman F. Abouraddy

The concept of synthetic dimensions has emerged as a powerful framework in photonics and atomic physics, enabling the exploration of high-dimensional physics beyond conventional spatial constraints. Originally developed for quantum…

Neural networks have been employed for a wide range of processing applications like image processing, motor control, object detection and many others. Living neural networks offer advantages of lower power consumption, faster processing,…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Sanjana Shetty

In this paper, a novel architecture of electro-optical neural networks based on the time-stretch method is proposed and numerically simulated. By stretching time-domain ultrashort pulses, multiplications of large scale weight matrices and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-18 Yubin Zang , Minghua Chen , Sigang Yang , Hongwei Chen

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are reshaping the field of information processing. With their exponential growth challenging existing electronic hardware, optical neural networks (ONNs) are emerging to process DNN tasks in the optical domain…

In this work, we extend standard neural networks by building upon an assumption that neuronal activations correspond to the angle of a complex number lying on the unit circle, or 'phasor.' Each layer in such a network produces new…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Wilkie Olin-Ammentorp , Maxim Bazhenov

Deep neural networks have achieved remarkable breakthroughs by leveraging multiple layers of data processing to extract hidden representations, albeit at the cost of large electronic computing power. To enhance energy efficiency and speed,…

Optical neural networks (ONNs), implemented on an array of cascaded Mach-Zehnder interferometers (MZIs), have recently been proposed as a possible replacement for conventional deep learning hardware. They potentially offer higher energy…

Optics · Physics 2022-03-21 Haoqin Deng , Mercedeh Khajavikhan

Deep learning has triggered explosive growth in the demand for specialized hardware processors, thus motivating the development of scalable and reconfigurable computing substrates. Optical processors offer a fundamentally different…

Having the potential for high speed, high throughput, and low energy cost, optical neural networks (ONNs) have emerged as a promising candidate for accelerating deep learning tasks. In conventional ONNs, light amplitudes are modulated at…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-18 Ruidi Qiu , Amro Eldebiky , Grace Li Zhang , Xunzhao Yin , Cheng Zhuo , Ulf Schlichtmann , Bing Li

Optical neural networks are emerging as a promising type of machine learning hardware capable of energy-efficient, parallel computation. Today's optical neural networks are mainly developed to perform optical inference after in silico…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-30 James Spall , Xianxin Guo , A. I. Lvovsky

Optical neural networks promise ultrafast, low-energy information processing by performing computation directly with photons. Current implementations, however, are largely restricted to steady-state operation and rely on high-latency…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Jiande Cao , Yexiong Zeng , Franco Nori , Ze-Liang Xiang

Synthetic photonic lattice with temporally controlled potentials is a versatile platform for realizing wave dynamics associated with physical areas of optics and quantum physics. Here, discrete optics in one-dimensionally synthetic photonic…

Optics · Physics 2020-10-28 Zengrun Wen , Kaile Wang , Baole Lu , Xinyuan Qi , Haowei Chen , Jintao Bai

In this work we present a novel recurrent neural network architecture designed to model systems characterized by multiple characteristic timescales in their dynamics. The proposed network is composed by several recurrent groups of neurons…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-01-19 Filippo Maria Bianchi , Michael Kampffmeyer , Enrico Maiorino , Robert Jenssen

Recent technological advances in integrated photonics have spurred on the study of topological phenomena in engineered bosonic systems. Indeed, the controllability of silicon ring-resonator arrays has opened up new perspectives for building…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-26 Tomoki Ozawa , Hannah M. Price , Nathan Goldman , Oded Zilberberg , Iacopo Carusotto

Optical neural networks are emerging as a powerful and versatile tool for processing optical signals directly in the optical domain with superior speed, integrability, and functionality. Their application to optical polarization enables…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-24 Alessandro Petrini , Claudio Conti , Davide Pierangeli

An emerging generative artificial intelligence (AI) based on neural networks starts to grow in popularity with a revolutionizing capability of creating new and original content. As giant generative models with millions to billions of…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Shuang Zheng , Jiawei Zhang , Weifeng Zhang

Accurate real-time object recognition from sensory data has long been a crucial and challenging task for autonomous driving. Even though deep neural networks (DNNs) have been successfully applied in this area, most existing methods still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Wei Wang , Shibo Zhou , Jingxi Li , Xiaohua Li , Junsong Yuan , Zhanpeng Jin

The propagation of ultrashort pulses in optical fibre displays complex nonlinear dynamics that find important applications in fields such as high power pulse compression and broadband supercontinuum generation. Such nonlinear evolution…

Synthetic dimensions (SDs) opened the door for exploring previously inaccessible phenomena in high-dimensional synthetic space. However, construction of synthetic lattices with desired coupling properties is a challenging and unintuitive…