TY - JOUR
T1 - Inference in artificial intelligence with deep optics and photonics
AU - Wetzstein, Gordon
AU - Ozcan, Aydogan
AU - Gigan, Sylvain
AU - Fan, Shanhui
AU - Englund, Dirk
AU - Soljačić, Marin
AU - Denz, Cornelia
AU - Miller, David A.B.
AU - Psaltis, Demetri
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2022-06-14
Acknowledgements: We thank E. Otte for help designing figures. G.W. was supported by an NSF CAREER Award (IIS 1553333), a Sloan Fellowship, by the KAUST Office of Sponsored Research through the Visual Computing Center CCF grant, and a PECASE by the US Army Research Office. A.O. was supported by an NSF ERC (PATHS-UP) grant. S.G. acknowledges funding from the European Research Council (ERC; H2020, SMARTIES-724473) and support from the Institut Universitaire de France. S.F. was supported by the US Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) through the MURI project (grant no. FA9550-17-1-0002). D.E. and M.S. were in part supported by the US Army Research Office through the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies (grant no. W911NF-18-2-0048). D.E. also acknowledges support from an NSF EAGER programme. D.A.B.M. was supported by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (award no. FA9550-17-1-0002). P.D. acknowledges discussions and a long-term collaboration with N. Farhat.
This publication acknowledges KAUST support, but has no KAUST affiliated authors.
PY - 2020/12/2
Y1 - 2020/12/2
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/679002
UR - http://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2973-6
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85097030572&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1038/s41586-020-2973-6
DO - 10.1038/s41586-020-2973-6
M3 - Article
SN - 1476-4687
VL - 588
SP - 39
EP - 47
JO - Nature
JF - Nature
IS - 7836
ER -