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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 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

Recent research efforts in optical computing have gravitated towards developing optical neural networks that aim to benefit from the processing speed and parallelism of optics/photonics in machine learning applications. Among these…

Optics · Physics 2020-12-25 Deniz Mengu , Yair Rivenson , Aydogan Ozcan

Diffractive deep neural networks (D2NNs) define an all-optical computing framework comprised of spatially engineered passive surfaces that collectively process optical input information by modulating the amplitude and/or the phase of the…

Optics · Physics 2023-02-23 Md Sadman Sakib Rahman , Aydogan Ozcan

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

As an optical processor, a Diffractive Deep Neural Network (D2NN) utilizes engineered diffractive surfaces designed through machine learning to perform all-optical information processing, completing its tasks at the speed of light…

Optics · Physics 2024-01-22 Xilin Yang , Md Sadman Sakib Rahman , Bijie Bai , Jingxi Li , Aydogan Ozcan

Optical machine learning offers advantages in terms of power efficiency, scalability and computation speed. Recently, an optical machine learning method based on Diffractive Deep Neural Networks (D2NNs) has been introduced to execute a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Deniz Mengu , Yi Luo , Yair Rivenson , Aydogan Ozcan

Transmitting structured light robustly through complex random media is crucial in many applications, from sensing to communication. Unfortunately, the spatial structure of light is distorted in such media due to refractive index…

Optics · Physics 2025-08-19 Cade Peters , Kelsey Everts , Tatjana Kleine , Pedro Ornelas , Andrew Forbes

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

We introduce an all-optical Diffractive Deep Neural Network (D2NN) architecture that can learn to implement various functions after deep learning-based design of passive diffractive layers that work collectively. We experimentally…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-09-26 Xing Lin , Yair Rivenson , Nezih T. Yardimci , Muhammed Veli , Mona Jarrahi , Aydogan Ozcan

Diffractive neural networks hold great promise for applications requiring intensive computational processing. Considerable attention has focused on diffractive networks for either spatially coherent or spatially incoherent illumination.…

Optics · Physics 2025-03-25 Matan Kleiner , Lior Michaeli , Tomer Michaeli

Diffractive deep neural networks have been introduced earlier as an optical machine learning framework that uses task-specific diffractive surfaces designed by deep learning to all-optically perform inference, achieving promising…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Jingxi Li , Deniz Mengu , Yi Luo , Yair Rivenson , Aydogan Ozcan

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

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

We report a broadband diffractive optical neural network design that simultaneously processes a continuum of wavelengths generated by a temporally-incoherent broadband source to all-optically perform a specific task learned using deep…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Yi Luo , Deniz Mengu , Nezih T. Yardimci , Yair Rivenson , Muhammed Veli , Mona Jarrahi , Aydogan Ozcan

Nonlinear computation is essential for various information processing tasks. Optical implementations are attractive because passive light propagation can manipulate high-dimensional signals with extreme throughput and parallelism; yet…

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,…

Diffractive optical networks unify wave optics and deep learning to all-optically compute a given machine learning or computational imaging task as the light propagates from the input to the output plane. Here, we report the design of…

Optics · Physics 2022-05-23 Deniz Mengu , Muhammed Veli , Yair Rivenson , Aydogan Ozcan

Optical computing has reemerged as a promising alternative computing paradigm for providing energy-efficient information processing in the age of artificial intelligence. Among various photonic neural network platforms, diffractive optical…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-18 Bahadır Utku Kesgin , Firdevs Yüce , Uğur Teğin

Optical skyrmion beams, which encompass two-dimensional topology in their spatial structures, are promising for ultra-dense optical communications and advanced matter manipulation. Generating such light beams via a chip-based approach will…

Optics · Physics 2024-11-18 Wenbo Lin , Yasutomo Ota , Yasuhiko Arakawa , Satoshi Iwamoto
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