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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

Data-driven methods have increasingly been applied to the development of optical systems as inexpensive and effective inverse design approaches. Optical properties (e.g., band-gap properties) of photonic crystals (PCs) are closely…

Optics · Physics 2022-02-01 Tao Zhan , Quan-Shan Liu , Lu Qiu , Yuan-Jie Sun , Tao Wen , Rui Zhang

Over the past few years, silicon photonics-based computing has emerged as a promising alternative to CMOS-based computing for Deep Neural Networks (DNN). Unfortunately, the non-linear operations and the high-precision requirements of DNNs…

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)…

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

We introduce a wavelength-multiplexed massively parallel diffractive information storage platform composed of dielectric surfaces that are structurally optimized at the wavelength scale using deep learning to store and project thousands of…

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…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Prakul Sunil Hiremath

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

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

Computer vision on low-power edge devices enables applications including search-and-rescue and security. State-of-the-art computer vision algorithms, such as Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), are too large for inference on low-power edge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Abhinav Goel , Caleb Tung , Xiao Hu , George K. Thiruvathukal , James C. Davis , Yung-Hsiang Lu

Diffractive deep neural network (DNNet) is a novel machine learning framework on the modulation of optical transmission. Diffractive network would get predictions at the speed of light. It's pure passive architecture, no additional power…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Yingshi Chen , Jinfeng Zhu

The need for optically multi-functional micro- and nano-structures is growing in various fields. Designing such structures is impeded by the lack of computationally low-cost algorithms. In this study, we present a hybrid design scheme,…

Optics · Physics 2022-01-19 Alim Yolalmaz , Emre Yüce

Computational optical imaging (COI) systems leverage optical coding elements (CE) in their setups to encode a high-dimensional scene in a single or multiple snapshots and decode it by using computational algorithms. The performance of COI…

Coherent photonic computing uses both the phase and amplitude of light to implement linear operations such as dot products and matrix multiplication but requires phase stability between the interfering paths. This poses a challenge for such…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-16 Shenghan Gao , Kathy Lüdge , Francesco Da Ros , Nathan Youngblood

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,…

Diffractive deep neural networks (D2NNs) are composed of successive transmissive layers optimized using supervised deep learning to all-optically implement various computational tasks between an input and output field-of-view (FOV). Here,…

In this paper, a novel reconfigurable architecture is proposed for multifunctional image signal processing systems. A circuit-switched NoC is used to provide interconnection because the non-TMD links ensure fixed throughput, which is a…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2013-10-15 Feitian Li , Fei Qiao , Qi Wei , Huazhong Yang

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

We report the design of diffractive surfaces to all-optically perform arbitrary complex-valued linear transformations between an input (N_i) and output (N_o), where N_i and N_o represent the number of pixels at the input and output…

Optics · Physics 2021-09-27 Onur Kulce , Deniz Mengu , Yair Rivenson , Aydogan Ozcan

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