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Specific features of nonlinear interference processes at quantum transitions in near- and fully-resonant optically-dense Doppler-broadened medium are studied. The feasibility of overcoming of the fundamental limitation on a…

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Superpositions of coherent light states, are vital for quantum technologies. However, restrictions in existing state preparation and characterization schemes, in combination with decoherence effects, prevent their intensity enhancement and…

Optical logic gates are fundamental blocks of optical computing to accelerate information processing. While significant progress has been achieved in recent years, existing implementations typically rely on dedicated structures that are…

Optics · Physics 2022-08-30 Zhipeng Yu , Yuchen Song , Tianting Zhong , Huanhao Li , Wei Zheng , Puxiang Lai

In the field of computer vision, visible light images often exhibit low contrast in low-light conditions, presenting a significant challenge. While infrared imagery provides a potential solution, its utilization entails high costs and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Yijia Chen , Pinghua Chen , Xiangxin Zhou , Yingtie Lei , Ziyang Zhou , Mingxian Li

A beam splitter is a key component used to direct and combine light paths in various optical and microwave systems. It plays a crucial role in devices like interferometers, such as the Mach-Zehnder and Hong-Ou-Mandel setups, where it splits…

In photonic neural network a key building block is the perceptron. Here, we describe and demonstrate a complex-valued photonic perceptron that combines time and space multiplexing in a fully passive silicon photonics integrated circuit. An…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Mattia Mancinelli , Davide Bazzanella , Paolo Bettotti , Lorenzo Pavesi

We investigate the effect of phase modulation of laser beams on the coherent and incoherent non-linear signals arising from the interaction of femtosecond pulses with matter. We observe that two collinear beams, whose phases are modulated…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-29 Khadga Jung Karki , Loni Kringle , Andrew H. Marcus , Tõnu Pullerits

In brain activity mapping experiments using optogenetics, patterned illumination is crucial for deterministic and localized stimulation of neurons. However, due to optical scattering in brain tissue, light-emitting implantable devices are…

Diffractive deep neural networks (D2NNs), which perform computation using light instead of electrons, offer a promising pathway toward accelerating artificial intelligence by leveraging the inherent advantages of optics in speed,…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-24 Haoyu Wang , Yanmin Zhu , Tong Fu

We report the realization of an optical filter based on an optical vortex mask designed to exclusively detect a weak coherent laser field in the presence of much stronger spatially-overlapping field. We demonstrate the performance of such…

Image processing is both one of the most exciting domains for applying artificial intelligence and the most computationally expensive. Nanostructured metasurfaces have opened the door to the ultimate energy saving by directly processing…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-07 Bo Zhao , Lin Lin , Ameyaw Samuel , Mark Lawrence

We propose and demonstrate theoretically a method to achieve and design optical nonlinear responses through a light-mediated spatial hybridization of different standard nonlinearities. The mechanism is based on the fact that optical…

Optics · Physics 2008-04-24 Alessandro Ciattoni , Eugenio Del Re , Carlo Rizza , Andrea Marini

Nonlinear photonic chips have succeeded in generating and processing signals all-optically with performance far superior to that possible electronically - particularly with respect to speed. Although silicon-on-insulator has been the…

Optics · Physics 2014-10-07 D. J. Moss , R. Morandotti

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

Despite the tremendous progresses in wavefront control through or inside complex scattering media, several limitations prevent reaching practical feasibility for nonlinear imaging in biological tissues. While the optimization of nonlinear…

Optics · Physics 2016-12-06 Hilton B. de Aguiar , Sylvain Gigan , Sophie Brasselet

Realizing a strong interaction between individual optical photons is an important objective of research in quantum science and technology. Since photons do not interact directly, this goal requires, e.g., an optical medium in which the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Jürgen Volz , Michael Scheucher , Christian Junge , Arno Rauschenbeutel

Arrays of neutral atoms trapped in optical tweezers have emerged as a leading platform for quantum information processing and quantum simulation due to their scalability, reconfigurable connectivity, and high-fidelity operations. Individual…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-31 Shankar G. Menon , Noah Glachman , Matteo Pompili , Alan Dibos , Hannes Bernien

We show that a nonlinear optical response associated with a resonant, atomically thin material can be dramatically enhanced by placing it in front of a partially reflecting mirror, rendering otherwise weakly nonlinear systems suitable for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-25 Dominik S. Wild , Ephraim Shahmoon , Susanne F. Yelin , Mikhail D. Lukin

We propose and experimentally demonstrate a nonlinear-optics approach to pattern recognition with single-pixel imaging and deep neural network. It employs mode selective image up-conversion to project a raw image onto a set of coherent…

Optics · Physics 2021-02-03 Ting Bu , Santosh Kumar , He Zhang , Irwin Huang , Yuping Huang

Advances in the amplification and manipulation of ultrashort laser pulses has led to revolutions in several areas. Examples include chirped pulse amplification for generating high peak-power lasers, power-scalable amplification techniques,…

Optics · Physics 2016-08-24 C. R. Phillips , B. W. Mayer , L. Gallmann , U. Keller