Million-channel parallelism Fourier-optic convolutional filter and neural network processor
Mario Miscuglio, Zibo Hu, Shurui Li, Jiaqi Gu, Aydin Babakhani, Puneet Gupta, Chee-Wei Wong, David Zhigang Pan, Seth R. Bank, Hamed Dalir, Volker J. Sorger · Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics · 2020
Here we report on a massively-parallel Fourier-optics convolutional processor accelerated 160x over spatial-light-modulators using digital-mirror-display technology as input and kernel. Testing the system on MNIST and CIFAR-10 datasets shows 96% and 54% accuracy, respectively.