Massively-parallel Amplitude-Only Fourier Optical Convolutional Neural Network
Mario Miscuglio, Zibo Hu, Shurui Li, Jonathan George, Roberto Capanna, Hamed Dalir, Philippe Matthieu Bardet, Puneet Gupta, Volker J. Sorger · Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics · 2021
Here we introduce a novel amplitude-only Fourier-optical processor paradigm and demonstrate a prototype system capable of processing large-scale ~(2,000x1,000) matrices in a single time-step and 100 microsecond-short latency, for accelerating machine-learning applications.