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Photonic computation started to shape the future of fast, efficient and accessible computation. The advantages brought by light based Diffractive Deep Neural Networks (D2NN), are shown to be overwhelmingly advantageous especially in…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-10 Anil J. Pekgöz , Emre Yüce

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

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

Diffractive deep neural network (D2NN), known for its high speed and strong parallelism, has been widely applied across various fields, including pattern recognition, image processing, and image transmission. However, existing network…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-03-24 Peijie Feng , Yong Tan , Mingzhe Chong , Lintao Li , Zongkun Zhang , Fubei Liu , Yunhua Tan , Yongzheng Wen

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

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 optical neural networks (DONNs) have emerged as a promising optical hardware platform for ultra-fast and energy-efficient signal processing for machine learning tasks, particularly in computer vision. Previous experimental…

Optics · Physics 2024-05-27 Matthew J. Filipovich , Aleksei Malyshev , A. I. Lvovsky

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

Optical neural networks (ONNs) are emerging as a promising neuromorphic computing paradigm for object recognition, offering unprecedented advantages in light-speed computation, ultra-low power consumption, and inherent parallelism. However,…

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Zhengyang Duan , Hang Chen , Xing Lin

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

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

Classification of an object behind a random and unknown scattering medium sets a challenging task for computational imaging and machine vision fields. Recent deep learning-based approaches demonstrated the classification of objects using…

Optics · Physics 2023-03-10 Yi Luo , Bijie Bai , Yuhang Li , Ege Cetintas , Aydogan Ozcan

Deep neural networks have achieved remarkable breakthroughs by leveraging multiple layers of data processing to extract hidden representations, albeit at the cost of large electronic computing power. To enhance energy efficiency and speed,…

Permutation matrices form an important computational building block frequently used in various fields including e.g., communications, information security and data processing. Optical implementation of permutation operators with relatively…

Optics · Physics 2022-09-09 Deniz Mengu , Yifan Zhao , Anika Tabassum , Mona Jarrahi , Aydogan Ozcan

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

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

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

We report a monochrome multi-task diffractive network architecture that leverages illumination phase multiplexing to dynamically reconfigure its output function and accurately implement a large group of complex-valued linear transformations…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-09 Xiao Wang , Aydogan Ozcan

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