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In their Comment, Wei et al. (arXiv:1809.08360v1 [cs.LG]) claim that our original interpretation of Diffractive Deep Neural Networks (D2NN) represent a mischaracterization of the system due to linearity and passivity. In this Response, we…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-11 Deniz Mengu , Yi Luo , Yair Rivenson , Xing Lin , Muhammed Veli , Aydogan Ozcan

Diffractive neural network (DNN), which can perform machine learning tasks based on the light propagation and diffraction, has recently emerged as a promising optical computing paradigm due to its high parallel processing speed and low…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-27 Yudong Tian , Haifeng Xu , Yuqing Liu , Xiangyu Zhao , Jierong Cheng , Chongzhao Wu

Deep neural networks with applications from computer vision and image processing to medical diagnosis are commonly implemented using clock-based processors, where computation speed is limited by the clock frequency and the memory access…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Farshid Ashtiani , Alexander J. Geers , Firooz Aflatouni

Photonic neural networks are brain-inspired information processing technology using photons instead of electrons to perform artificial intelligence (AI) tasks. However, existing architectures are designed for a single task but fail to…

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Precise engineering of materials and surfaces has been at the heart of some of the recent advances in optics and photonics. These advances around the engineering of materials with new functionalities have also opened up exciting avenues for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-25 Onur Kulce , Deniz Mengu , Yair Rivenson , Aydogan Ozcan

Optical computing has reemerged as a promising alternative computing paradigm for providing energy-efficient information processing in the age of artificial intelligence. Among various photonic neural network platforms, diffractive optical…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-18 Bahadır Utku Kesgin , Firdevs Yüce , Uğur Teğin

Diffractive optical neural networks (DONNs) have been emerging as a high-throughput and energy-efficient hardware platform to perform all-optical machine learning (ML) in machine vision systems. However, the current demonstrated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Ruiyang Chen , Yingheng Tang , Jianzhu Ma , Weilu Gao

Nonlinear computation is essential for various information processing tasks. Optical implementations are attractive because passive light propagation can manipulate high-dimensional signals with extreme throughput and parallelism; yet…

We report a broadband diffractive optical neural network design that simultaneously processes a continuum of wavelengths generated by a temporally-incoherent broadband source to all-optically perform a specific task learned using deep…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Yi Luo , Deniz Mengu , Nezih T. Yardimci , Yair Rivenson , Muhammed Veli , Mona Jarrahi , Aydogan Ozcan

Research on optical computing has recently attracted significant attention due to the transformative advances in machine learning. Among different approaches, diffractive optical networks composed of spatially-engineered transmissive…

Optics · Physics 2022-05-27 Jingxi Li , Yi-Chun Hung , Onur Kulce , Deniz Mengu , Aydogan Ozcan

Diffractive Neural Networks (DNNs) leverage the power of light to enhance computational performance in machine learning, offering a pathway to high-speed, low-energy, and large-scale neural information processing. However, most existing DNN…

Optics · Physics 2024-11-21 Sahar Behroozinia , Qing Gu

A wide range of practically important problems is nowadays efficiently solved using artificial neural networks. This gave momentum to intensive development of their optical implementations, among which, the so-called diffractive neural…

We report deep learning-based design of a massively parallel broadband diffractive neural network for all-optically performing a large group of arbitrarily-selected, complex-valued linear transformations between an input and output…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Jingxi Li , Bijie Bai , Yi Luo , Aydogan Ozcan

Image denoising, one of the essential inverse problems, targets to remove noise/artifacts from input images. In general, digital image denoising algorithms, executed on computers, present latency due to several iterations implemented in,…

Optical Skyrmions are topological forms of structured light with the potential of an infinite encoding alphabet that is immune to disturbance. This attractive prospect is hindered by the lack of any topological detector, a challenging…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-15 Hadrian Bezuidenhout , Cade Peters , Ram Kumar , Andrew Forbes , Isaac Nape

Recent advancements in optical computing have garnered considerable research interests owing to its ener-gy-efficient operation and ultralow latency characteristics. As an emerging framework in this domain, dif-fractive deep neural networks…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 Yudong Tian , Haifeng Xu , Yuqing Liu , Xiangyu Zhao , Jingzhu Shao , Jierong Cheng , Chongzhao Wu

We proposed a broad-spectrum diffractive deep neural network (BS-D2NN) framework, which incorporates multi-wavelength channels of input lightfields and performs a parallel phase-only modulation utilizing a layered passive mask architecture.…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Jiashuo Shi , Yingshi Chen , Xinyu Zhang

All-optical diffractive neural networks (DNNs) offer a promising alternative to electronics-based neural network processing due to their low latency, high throughput, and inherent spatial parallelism. However, the lack of reconfigurability…

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have substantial computational requirements, which greatly limit their performance in resource-constrained environments. Recently, there are increasing efforts on optical neural networks and optical computing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Yingjie Li , Ruiyang Chen , Berardi Sensale Rodriguez , Weilu Gao , Cunxi Yu

Semantic segmentation and lane detection are crucial tasks in autonomous driving systems. Conventional approaches predominantly rely on deep neural networks (DNNs), which incur high energy costs due to extensive analog-to-digital…

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