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High-speed machine vision is increasing its importance in both scientific and technological applications. Neuro-inspired photonic computing is a promising approach to speed-up machine vision processing with ultralow latency. However, the…

In recent years, machine vision has taken huge leaps and is now becoming an integral part of various intelligent systems, including autonomous vehicles, robotics, and many others. Usually, visual information is captured by a frame-based…

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming modern life, yet the growing scale of AI applications places mounting demands on computational resources, raising sustainability concerns. Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) offer a promising…

Metasurface holography, the reconstruction of holographic images by modulating the spatial amplitude and phase of light using metasurfaces, has emerged as a next-generation display technology. However, conventional fabrication techniques…

Exploiting of nonlinearity has opened doors into undiscovered areas for achieving multiplexed performances in recent years. Although efforts have been made to obtain diverse nonlinear architectures at visible frequencies, the room is still…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 Mehdi Kiani , Majid Tayarani , Ali Momeni , Hamid Rajabalipanah , Ali Abdolali

Optics and photonics has recently captured interest as a platform to accelerate linear matrix processing, that has been deemed as a bottleneck in traditional digital electronic architectures. In this paper, we propose an all-photonic…

We propose a tunable coherent perfect absorber based on ultrathin nonlinear metasurfaces. The nonlinear metasurface is made of plasmonic nanoantennas coupled to an epsilon-near-zero material with a large optical nonlinearity. The coherent…

Optics · Physics 2020-12-30 Rasoul Alaee , Yaswant Vaddi , Robert W. Boyd

The conversion of phase variations in an optical wavefield into intensity information is of fundamental importance for optical imaging technology including microscopy of biological cells. While conventional approaches to phase-imaging…

Optics · Physics 2022-09-07 Lukas Wesemann , Jon Rickett , Timothy J. Davis , Ann Roberts

Nonlinear nanostructured surfaces provide a paradigm shift in nonlinear optics with new ways to control and manipulate frequency conversion processes at the nanoscale, also offering novel opportunities for applications in photonics,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-11-07 Kirill Koshelev , Yutao Tang , Kingfai Li , Duk-Yong Choi , Guixin Li , Yuri Kivshar

Nonlinear metasurface holography shows the great potential of metasurfaces to control the phase, amplitude, and polarization of light while simultaneously converting the frequency of the light. The possibility of tailoring the scattering…

Modern nanofabrication techniques have enabled us to manipulate the wavefront of light with sub-wavelength-scale structures, offering the potential to replace bulky refractive surfaces in conventional optics with ultrathin metasurfaces. In…

This paper studies hybrid beamforming for active sensing applications, such as millimeter-wave or ultrasound imaging. Hybrid beamforming can substantially lower the cost and power consumption of fully digital sensor arrays by reducing the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-30 Robin Rajamäki , Sundeep Prabhakar Chepuri , Visa Koivunen

Deep learning using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) has been shown to significantly out-performed many conventional vision algorithms. Despite efforts to increase the CNN efficiency both algorithmically and with specialized hardware,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Carlos Mauricio Villegas Burgos , Tianqi Yang , Nick Vamivakas , Yuhao Zhu

This paper studies analog beamforming in active sensing applications, such as millimeter-wave radar or ultrasound imaging. Analog beamforming architectures employ a single RF-IF chain connected to all array elements via inexpensive phase…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-24 Robin Rajamäki , Sundeep Prabhakar Chepuri , Visa Koivunen

Freed from phase-matching constraints, plasmonic metasurfaces have contributed significantly to the control of the optical nonlinearity and enhancing the nonlinear generation efficiency by engineering subwavelength meta-atoms. However, the…

Optics · Physics 2020-02-11 Basudeb Sain , Cedrik Meier , Thomas Zentgraf

In low-light conditions, a conventional camera imaging pipeline produces sub-optimal images that are usually dark and noisy due to a low photon count and low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). We present a data-driven approach that learns the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Syed Waqas Zamir , Aditya Arora , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Ling Shao

As standard microelectronic technology approaches fundamental limitations in speed and power consumption, novel computing strategies are strongly needed. Analog optical computing enables processing large amounts of data at a negligible…

In this paper, we realize the concept of analog computing using an array of engineered gradient dielectric meta-reflect-array. The proposed configuration consists of individual subwavelength silicon nanobricks in combination with fused…

Spatial filtering of optical fields has widespread applications ranging from beam shaping to optical information processing. However, conventional spatial filters are bulky and alignment-sensitive. Here, we present nonlocal non-Hermitian…

Optics · Physics 2025-08-04 Biao Chen , Mikael Reichler , Radoslaw Kolkowski , Andriy Shevchenko

Acoustic holographic rendering in complete analogy with optical holography are useful for various applications, ranging from multi-focal lensing, multiplexed sensing and synthesizing three-dimensional complex sound fields. Conventional…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-07-21 Yangbo Xie , Chen Shen , Wenqi Wang , Junfei Li , Dingjie Suo , Bogdan-Ioan Popa , Yun Jing , Steven A. Cummer