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DY: Fachverband Dynamik und Statistische Physik
DY 22: Machine Learning in Dynamics and Statistical Physics II
DY 22.4: Talk
Tuesday, March 28, 2023, 14:45–15:00, ZEU 160
Optical convolutional neural network with atomic nonlinearity — •Mingwei Yang1,2, Elizabeth Robertson1,2, Luisa Esguerra1,2, Kurt Busch3,4, and Janik Wolters1,2 — 1Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Institute of Optical Sensor Systems, Berlin, Germany. — 2Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany. — 3Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Physik, AG Theoretische Optik & Photonik, Berlin, Germany. — 4Max-Born-Institut, Berlin, Germany.
Due to their inherent parallelism, fast processing speeds and low energy consumption, free-space-optics implementations have been identified as an attractive possibility for analog computations of convolutions [1,2]. However, the efficient implementation of optical nonlinearities for such neural networks still remains challenging. In this work, we report on the realization and characterization of a three-layer optical convolutional neural network where the linear part is based on a 4f-imaging system and the optical nonlinearity is realized via the absorption profile of a cesium atomic vapor cell. This system classifies the handwritten digital dataset MNIST with 83.96% accuracy, which agrees well with corresponding simulations. [1] H. J. Caulfield and S. Dolev, *Why future supercomputing requires optics,* Nat. Photonics 4, 261*263 (2010). [2] M. Miscuglio, Z. Hu, S. Li, J. K. George, R. Capanna, H. Dalir, P. M. Bardet, P. Gupta, and V. J. Sorger, *Massively parallel amplitude-only fourier neural network,* Optica 7, 1812*1819 (2020).