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  • Full‐Fourier‐Component Tail...
    Luo, Xuhao; Dong, Siyu; Wei, Zeyong; Wang, Zhanshan; Hu, Yueqiang; Duan, Huigao; Cheng, Xinbin

    Laser & photonics reviews, December 2023, 2023-12-00, 20231201, Volume: 17, Issue: 12
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    Brain‐inspired optical neural computing (ONC) is the state‐of‐the‐art scheme in modern computing, offering robust strategies to execute advanced inference with a high throughput and large‐scale parallelism. However, the hitherto prevalent diffractive ONC networks have watered‐down competence, which is mostly a phase‐only methodology but fails to precisely handle the Fourier transform of complex fields, thus forfeiting the integrity of the architecture and half the volume of available training weights. Here, a novel neural meta‐transformer (ONM) enabled by an optical rotation‐isolator‐assisted paradigm is proposed, whose meta‐neurons utilize structural birefringence and polarization rotation to achieve independently arbitrary tailoring of full Fourier components, that is the complete learnable parameters of diffractive ONC. The full‐Fourier‐component ONM has great merits over phase‐only counterparts in all representative cases: being a classifier, it improves the recognition accuracy, especially for input with more high‐frequency features; acting as an imager, the background noise of output is effectively diminished; and when engineering as an encoder, both near‐field grayscale nanoprinting and neural meta‐holography are yielded. The mechanism is minimalist, compact, and compatible with nonlinear activation, opening the route to fully parametric intelligent meta‐devices, with far‐reaching implications for optical computing, display, encryption, etc. A full‐Fourier‐component diffractive neural network is constructed by birefringent metasurface units with the arbitrary and independent modulation of phase and amplitude. The proposed scheme provides multiple information storage dimensions and excellent inference capabilities for a variety of typical complex optical calculations, especially with absolute advantages for high‐frequency information processing.