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Waveguide design is crucial in developing efficient light delivery systems, requiring meticulous material selection, precise manufacturing, and rigorous performance optimization, including dispersion engineering. Here, we introduce…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-10 Yuntian Wang , Yuhang Li , Tianyi Gan , Kun Liao , Mona Jarrahi , Aydogan Ozcan

Orbital angular momentum (OAM)-carrying beams have gained significant attention in recent years due to their unique properties and potential to improve spectral efficiency and data transmission rates in optical communication systems.…

Large-scale and high-dimensional permutation operations are important for various applications in e.g., telecommunications and encryption. Here, we demonstrate the use of all-optical diffractive computing to execute a set of…

Motivated by the recent success of end-to-end training of communications in the wireless domain, we strive to adapt the end-to-end-learning idea from the wireless case (i.e., linear) to coherent optical fiber links (i.e., nonlinear).…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Tim Uhlemann , Sebastian Cammerer , Alexander Span , Sebastian Dörner , Stephan ten Brink

Seamlessly moving objects within a scene is a common requirement for image editing, but it is still a challenge for existing editing methods. Especially for real-world images, the occlusion situation further increases the difficulty. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Zheng-Peng Duan , Jiawei Zhang , Siyu Liu , Zheng Lin , Chun-Le Guo , Dongqing Zou , Jimmy Ren , Chongyi Li

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…

Visual object recognition under situations in which the direct line-of-sight is blocked, such as when it is occluded around the corner, is of practical importance in a wide range of applications. With coherent illumination, the light…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Xin Lei , Liangyu He , Yixuan Tan , Ken Xingze Wang , Xinggang Wang , Yihan Du , Shanhui Fan , Zongfu Yu

In the age of information explosion, the conventional optical communication protocols are rapidly reaching the limits of their capacity, as almost all available degrees of freedom (e.g., wavelength, polarization) for division multiplexing…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-30 Xin Liu , Sergey A. Ponomarenko , Fei Wang , Yangjian Cai , Chunhao Liang

We study the secrecy of an optical communication system with two scattering layers, to hide both the sender and receiver, by measuring the correlation of the intermediate speckle generated between the two layers. The binary message is…

Image composition is a complex task which requires a lot of information about the scene for an accurate and realistic composition, such as perspective, lighting, shadows, occlusions, and object interactions. Previous methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Amr Ghoneim , Jiju Poovvancheri , Yasushi Akiyama , Dong Chen

Diffractive deep neural networks (D2NNs) define an all-optical computing framework comprised of spatially engineered passive surfaces that collectively process optical input information by modulating the amplitude and/or the phase of the…

Optics · Physics 2023-02-23 Md Sadman Sakib Rahman , Aydogan Ozcan

Twisted light has recently gained enormous interest in communication systems. Thus far, twisted light has not yet been utilized for visible light communication to transmit data. Here, by exploiting the color and orbital angular momentum…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-01-31 Yuanying Zhang , Jikang Wang , Wuhong Zhang , Shuting Chen , Lixiang Chen

Self-supervised deep learning-based 3D scene understanding methods can overcome the difficulty of acquiring the densely labeled ground-truth and have made a lot of advances. However, occlusions and moving objects are still some of the major…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Jiaojiao Fang , Guizhong Liu

We consider the problem of quantum communication mediated by an optical refocusing system, which is schematized as a thin lens with a finite pupil. This model captures the basic features of all those situations in which a signal is either…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-26 Cosmo Lupo , Vittorio Giovannetti , Stefano Pirandola , Stefano Mancini , Seth Lloyd

We present a deblurring method for scenes with occluding objects using a carefully designed layered blur model. Layered blur model is frequently used in the motion deblurring problem to handle locally varying blurs, which is caused by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-30 Byeongjoo Ahn , Tae Hyun Kim , Wonsik Kim , Kyoung Mu Lee

Imaging through diffusers presents a challenging problem with various digital image reconstruction solutions demonstrated to date using computers. We present a computer-free, all-optical image reconstruction method to see through random…

Structured light, where complex optical fields are tailored in all their degrees of freedom, has become highly topical of late, advanced by a sophisticated toolkit comprising both linear and nonlinear optics. Removing undesired structure…

As an optical machine learning framework, Diffractive Deep Neural Networks (D2NN) take advantage of data-driven training methods used in deep learning to devise light-matter interaction in 3D for performing a desired statistical inference…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-08 Deniz Mengu , Yifan Zhao , Nezih T. Yardimci , Yair Rivenson , Mona Jarrahi , Aydogan Ozcan

Photonic brain-inspired platforms are emerging as novel analog computing devices, enabling fast and energy-efficient operations for machine learning. These artificial neural networks generally require tailored optical elements, such as…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Davide Pierangeli , Giulia Marcucci , Claudio Conti

The interaction between light and matter is fundamental to developments in quantum optics and information. Over recent years enormous progress has been made in controlling the interface between light and single emitters including ions,…