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Optical imaging is commonly used for both scientific and technological applications across industry and academia. In image sensing, a measurement, such as of an object's position, is performed by computational analysis of a digitized image.…

This paper presents a novel framework for high-dimensional nonlinear quantum computation that exploits tensor products of amplified vector and matrix encodings to efficiently evaluate multivariate polynomials. The approach enables the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-01 Matthias Deiml , Daniel Peterseim

The rapid scaling of deep neural networks comes at the cost of unsustainable power consumption. While optical neural networks offer an alternative, their capabilities remain constrained by the lack of efficient optical nonlinearities. To…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-06 Qingyi Zhou , Jungmin Kim , Yutian Tao , Guoming Huang , Ming Zhou , Zewei Shao , Zongfu Yu

Optical approaches have made great strides towards the goal of high-speed, energy-efficient computing necessary for modern deep learning and AI applications. Read-in and read-out of data, however, limit the overall performance of existing…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Alexander Song , Sai Nikhilesh Murty Kottapalli , Rahul Goyal , Bernhard Schölkopf , Peer Fischer

Neural networks find widespread use in scientific and technological applications, yet their implementations in conventional computers have encountered bottlenecks due to ever-expanding computational needs. Photonic neuromorphic hardware,…

We investigate the nonlinear propagation of light in graded-index multimode fiber, utilizing it as an optical computing unit, and quantify how it employs waveguide modes to process information. Using a time-dependent spatiotemporal…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-12 Firdevs Yüce , Bora Çarpınlıoğlu , Uğur Teğin

As deep learning applications continue to deploy increasingly large artificial neural networks, the associated high energy demands are creating a need for alternative neuromorphic approaches. Optics and photonics are particularly compelling…

Optics · Physics 2025-08-19 Nicola Dal Cin , Florian Marquardt , Clara C. Wanjura

Optical computing offers potential for ultra high-speed and low latency computation by leveraging the intrinsic properties of light. Here, we explore the use of highly nonlinear optical fibers (HNLFs) as platforms for optical computing…

Looking at physical systems as computers allows us to regard physical properties, such as thermal noise, symmetry or topology, as unconventional resources for computation. However, harnessing these resources requires programming…

In this paper, we introduce a new nonlinear optical channel equalizer based on Transformers. By leveraging parallel computation and attending directly to the memory across a sequence of symbols, we show that Transformers can be used…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Behnam Behinaein Hamgini , Hossein Najafi , Ali Bakhshali , Zhuhong Zhang

Optical kernel machines offer high throughput and low latency. A nonlinear optical kernel can handle complex nonlinear data, but power consumption is typically high with the conventional nonlinear optical approach. To overcome this issue,…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-25 SeungYun Han , Fei Xia , Sylvain Gigan , Bruno Loureiro , Hui Cao

Light's ability to perform massive linear operations parallelly has recently inspired numerous demonstrations of optics-assisted artificial neural networks (ANN). However, a clear advantage of optics over purely digital ANN in a…

Electronic computers have evolved drastically over the past years with an ever-growing demand for improved performance. However, the transfer of information from memory and high energy consumption have emerged as issues that require…

Neural networks have proven effective for solving many difficult computational problems. Implementing complex neural networks in software is very computationally expensive. To explore the limits of information processing, it will be…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-20 Jeffrey M. Shainline , Sonia M. Buckley , Richard P. Mirin , Sae Woo Nam

Recent progress in effective nonlinearity, achieved by exploiting multiple scatterings within the linear optical regime, has been demonstrated to be a promising approach to enable nonlinear optical processing without relying on actual…

This paper introduces a new method for semi-supervised learning on high dimensional nonlinear manifolds, which includes a phase of unsupervised basis learning and a phase of supervised function learning. The learned bases provide a set of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2009-06-30 Kai Yu , Tong Zhang

Optical neural networks are at the forefront of computational innovation, utilizing photons as the primary carriers of information and employing optical components for computation. However, the fundamental nonlinear optical device in the…

Today, machine learning tools, particularly artificial neural networks, have become crucial for diverse applications. However, current digital computing tools to train and deploy artificial neural networks often struggle with massive data…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Bora Çarpınlıoğlu , Uğur Teğin

In light of recent achievements in optical computing and machine learning, we consider the conditions under which all-optical computing may surpass electronic and optoelectronic computing in terms of energy efficiency and scalability. When…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Michał Matuszewski , Adam Prystupiuk , Andrzej Opala

All-optical image processing offers a high-speed, energy-efficient alternative to conventional electronic systems by leveraging the wave nature of light for parallel computation. However, traditional optical processors rely on bulky…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-17 Linzhi Yu , Haobijam J. Singh , Jesse Pietila , Humeyra Caglayan