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IMAGE: a. Ultraflat optics manufacturing pipeline. b. Example of basic optical components for polarization control. The top panel presents an experimental comparison with commercial devices available from Thorlabs and Newport catalogues.. view more
Credit: by Andrea Fratalocchi
In a new paper published in
Light Science & Application, the group led by Professor Andrea Fratalocchi from Primalight Laboratory of the Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE) Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia, introduced a new patented, scalable flat-optics technology manufactured with inexpensive semiconductors.
The KAUST-designed technology leverages on a previously unrecognized aspect of optical nanoresonators, which are demonstrated to possess a physical layer that is completely equivalent to a feed-forward deep neural network.
In a new paper published in
Light: Science & Applications, the group led by Professor Andrea Fratalocchi from Primalight Laboratory of the Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE) Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia, introduced a new patented, scalable flat-optics technology manufactured with inexpensive semiconductors.
The KAUST-designed technology leverages on a previously unrecognized aspect of optical nanoresonators, which are demonstrated to possess a physical layer that is completely equivalent to a feed-forward deep neural network. What we have achieved, explains Fratalocchi, is a technological process to cover flat surfaces, which in optical jargon are called flat optics, with physical neural units that are able to process light as a neural network does with an electrical signal.