Professors Gordon Wetzstein, Shanhui Fan, and David A. B. Miller collaborated with faculty at several other institutions, to publish, "Inference in artificial intelligence with deep optics and photonics".
Abstract: Artificial intelligence tasks across numerous applications require accelerators for fast and low-power execution. Optical computing systems may be able to meet these domain-specific needs but, despite half a century of research, general-purpose optical computing systems have yet to mature into a practical technology. Artificial intelligence inference, however, especially for visual computing applications, may offer opportunities for inference based on optical and photonic systems. In this Perspective, we review recent work on optical computing for artificial intelligence applications and discuss its promise and challenges.
Additional authors are Aydogan Ozcan, Sylvain Gigan, Dirk Englund, Marin Soljačić, Cornelia Denz, and Demetri Psaltis.
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Gordon Wetzstein, Shanhui Fan, and David A. B. Miller's recent collaborative paper - December 2020 - Electrical Engineering Department
