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We present a broadband and polarization-insensitive unidirectional imager that operates at the visible part of the spectrum, where image formation occurs in one direction while in the opposite direction, it is blocked. This approach is…

Hyperspectral imaging has proven its efficiency for target detection applications but the acquisition mode and the data rate are major issues when dealing with real-time detection applications. It can be useful to use snapshot spectral…

By placing a diffractive element in front of an image sensor, we are able to multiplex the spectral and angular information of a scene onto the image sensor. Reconstruction of the angular-spectral distribution is attained by first…

Optics · Physics 2018-02-06 Peng Wang , Rajesh Menon

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

Snapshot hyperspectral imaging systems acquire spectral data cubes through compressed sensing. Recently, diffractive snapshot spectral imaging (DSSI) methods have attracted significant attention. While various optical designs and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Zhengyue Zhuge , Jiahui Xu , Shiqi Chen , Hao Xu , Yueting Chen , Zhihai Xu , Huajun Feng

Spectral imaging technologies have rapidly evolved during the past decades. The recent development of single-camera-one-shot techniques for hyperspectral imaging allows multiple spectral bands to be captured simultaneously (3x3, 4x4 or 5x5…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Eric L. Wisotzky , Charul Daudkhane , Anna Hilsmann , Peter Eisert

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…

A unidirectional imager would only permit image formation along one direction, from an input field-of-view (FOV) A to an output FOV B, and in the reverse path, the image formation would be blocked. Here, we report the first demonstration of…

Diffractive optical networks unify wave optics and deep learning to all-optically compute a given machine learning or computational imaging task as the light propagates from the input to the output plane. Here, we report the design of…

Optics · Physics 2022-05-23 Deniz Mengu , Muhammed Veli , Yair Rivenson , Aydogan Ozcan

Imaging through diffusive media is a challenging problem, where the existing solutions heavily rely on digital computers to reconstruct distorted images. We provide a detailed analysis of a computer-free, all-optical imaging method for…

Optics · Physics 2022-08-02 Yuhang Li , Yi Luo , Bijie Bai , Aydogan Ozcan

Compressive spectral imaging enables to reconstruct the entire three-dimensional (3D) spectral cube from a few multiplexed images. Here, we develop a novel compressive spectral imaging technique using diffractive lenses. Our technique uses…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-24 Oğuzhan Fatih Kar , Figen S. Oktem

Conventional spectrometer and polarimeter systems rely on bulky optics, fundamentally limiting compact integration and hindering multi-dimensional optical sensing capabilities. Here, we propose a spectropolarimeter enabled by…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-13 Jumin Qiu , Tingting Liu , Chenxuan Xiang , Tianbao Yu , Qiegen Liu , Shuyuan Xiao

Multispectral imaging plays an important role in many applications from astronomical imaging, earth observation to biomedical imaging. However, the current technologies are complex with multiple alignment-sensitive components, predetermined…

Optics · Physics 2021-09-17 Sujit Kumar Sahoo , Dongliang Tang , Cuong Dang

Replacing electrons with photons is a compelling route towards light-speed, highly parallel, and low-power artificial intelligence computing. Recently, all-optical diffractive neural deep neural networks have been demonstrated. However, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-19 Xuhao Luo , Yueqiang Hu , Xin Li , Xiangnian Ou , Jiajie Lai , Na Liu , Huigao Duan

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

We have demonstrated the capability of spectral multiplexing in multi-distance diffractive imaging, enabling the reconstruction of samples with diverse spectral responses. While previous methods like ptychography utilize redundancy in…

Optics · Physics 2024-05-31 Qijun You , Lingshuo Meng , Yun Gao , Qing Liao , Wei Cao , Peixiang Lu

We present MetaSpectra+, a compact multifunctional camera that supports two operating modes: (1) snapshot HDR + hyperspectral or (2) snapshot polarization + hyperspectral imaging. It utilizes a novel metasurface-refractive assembly that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-11 Yuxuan Liu , Wei Xu , Qi Guo

Hyperspectral compressive imaging takes advantage of compressive sensing theory to achieve coded aperture snapshot measurement without temporal scanning, and the entire three-dimensional spatial-spectral data is captured by a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-03 Yubao Sun , Ying Yang , Qingshan Liu , Mohan Kankanhalli

Multispectral imaging is very beneficial in diverse applications, like healthcare and agriculture, since it can capture absorption bands of molecules in different spectral areas. A promising approach for multispectral snapshot imaging are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-08 Frank Sippel , Jürgen Seiler , André Kaup

Multispectral polarisation imaging has a broad range of applications, from biological cell imaging to agricultural remote surveying. For such applications, especially involving lightweight unmanned aerial vehicles like drones, it is…