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Several laws are found for the Diffractive Deep Neural Networks (D2NN). They reveal the inner product of any two light fields in D2NN is invariant and the D2NN act as a unitary transformation for optical fields. If the output intensities of…

Optical super-oscillation enables far-field super-resolution imaging beyond diffraction limits. However, the existing super-oscillatory lens for the spatial super-resolution imaging system still confronts critical limitations in performance…

3D engineering of matter has opened up new avenues for designing systems that can perform various computational tasks through light-matter interaction. Here, we demonstrate the design of optical networks in the form of multiple diffractive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Jingxi Li , Deniz Mengu , Nezih T. Yardimci , Yi Luo , Xurong Li , Muhammed Veli , Yair Rivenson , Mona Jarrahi , Aydogan Ozcan

Lin et al. (Reports, 7 September 2018, p. 1004) reported a remarkable proposal that employs a passive, strictly linear optical setup to perform pattern classifications. But interpreting the multilayer diffractive setup as a deep neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Haiqing Wei , Gang Huang , Xiuqing Wei , Yanlong Sun , Hongbin Wang

Diffractive optical networks provide rich opportunities for visual computing tasks since the spatial information of a scene can be directly accessed by a diffractive processor without requiring any digital pre-processing steps. Here we…

Optics · Physics 2023-04-28 Bijie Bai , Heming Wei , Xilin Yang , Deniz Mengu , Aydogan Ozcan

Optical neural networks (ONNs) perform extensive computations using photons instead of electrons, resulting in passively energy-efficient and low-latency computing. Among various ONNs, the diffractive optical neural networks (DONNs)…

Edge intelligence is constrained by the energy and latency costs of shuttling data through electronic memory hierarchies. Optical systems offer a fundamentally different computational regime: once an input wavefront is launched into a…

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Nonlinear computation is essential for a wide range of information processing tasks, yet implementing nonlinear functions using optical systems remains a challenge due to the weak and power-intensive nature of optical nonlinearities.…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-10 Md Sadman Sakib Rahman , Yuhang Li , Xilin Yang , Shiqi Chen , Aydogan Ozcan

Under spatially-coherent light, a diffractive optical network composed of structured surfaces can be designed to perform any arbitrary complex-valued linear transformation between its input and output fields-of-view (FOVs) if the total…

Optics · Physics 2023-08-17 Md Sadman Sakib Rahman , Xilin Yang , Jingxi Li , Bijie Bai , Aydogan Ozcan

The escalating energy demands and parallel-processing bottlenecks of electronic neural networks underscore the need for alternative computing paradigms. Optical neural networks, capitalizing on the inherent parallelism and speed of light…

We propose an efficient inverse design approach for multifunctional optical elements based on adaptive deep diffractive neural networks (a-D$^2$NNs). Specifically, we introduce a-D$^2$NNs and design two-layer diffractive devices that can…

Optics · Physics 2022-06-08 Yuyao Chen , Yilin Zhu , Wesley A. Britton , Luca Dal Negro

Optical imaging and sensing systems based on diffractive elements have seen massive advances over the last several decades. Earlier generations of diffractive optical processors were, in general, designed to deliver information to an…

Optics · Physics 2024-08-14 Md Sadman Sakib Rahman , Aydogan Ozcan

Optical diffractive neural networks have triggered extensive research with their low power consumption and high speed in image processing. In this work, we propose a reconfigurable digital all-optical diffractive neural network (R-ODNN)…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Chu Wu , Jingyu Zhao , Qiaomu Hu , Rui Zeng , Minming Zhang

Optical Diffraction Neural Networks (DNNs), a subset of Optical Neural Networks (ONNs), show promise in mirroring the prowess of electronic networks. This study introduces the Hybrid Diffraction Neural Network (HDNN), a novel architecture…

A cascaded phase-only mask architecture (or an optical diffractive neural network) can be employed for different optical information processing tasks such as pattern recognition, orbital angular momentum (OAM) mode conversion, image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Yang Gao , Shuming Jiao , Juncheng Fang , Ting Lei , Zhenwei Xie , Xiaocong Yuan

Modern deep neural networks are powerful and widely applicable models that extract task-relevant information through multi-level abstraction. Their cross-domain success, however, is often achieved at the expense of computational cost, high…

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Deep-learning algorithms enable precise image recognition based on high-dimensional hierarchical image features. Here, we report the development and implementation of a deep-learning-based image segmentation algorithm in an autonomous…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-26 Satoru Masubuchi , Eisuke Watanabe , Yuta Seo , Shota Okazaki , Takao Sasagawa , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Tomoki Machida

Optical neural networks are emerging as powerful machine learning and information processing tools because of their potential advantages in speed and energy efficiency. The training methods of these physical models, however, remain…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-11 Xudong Lv , Yuxiang Sun , Shuo Wang , Nanxing Chen , Jun Guan , Jingtian Hu

An optical diffractive neural network (DNN) can be implemented with a cascaded phase mask architecture. Like an optical computer, the system can perform machine learning tasks such as number digit recognition in an all-optical manner.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Shuming Jiao , Jun Feng , Yang Gao , Ting Lei , Zhenwei Xie , Xiaocong Yuan

This paper presents Discriminative Part Network (DP-Net), a deep architecture with strong interpretation capabilities, which exploits a pretrained Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) combined with a part-based recognition module. This system…

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