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This study introduces a novel single-layer diffractive deep neural network (D2NN) that uses dual wavelengths to overcome alignment issues in photonic computing. This compact design achieves high accuracy on image datasets, outperforming complex multi-layer D2NNs.

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Area of Science:

Photonics
Artificial Intelligence
Optical Computing

Background:

Conventional multi-layer diffractive deep neural networks (D2NNs) face performance limitations due to inter-layer misalignments, especially at visible wavelengths.
These misalignments increase optical architecture complexity and are highly sensitive, hindering practical applications.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a compact, single-layer D2NN that mitigates inter-layer mechanical alignment errors.
To enhance computational speed, parallelism, and energy efficiency in photonic artificial intelligence.

Main Methods:

Demonstration of a single-layer, dual-wavelength differential D2NN.
Integration of wavelength multiplexing and differential detection techniques.
Harnessing complementary spatial-frequency information encoded at two distinct wavelengths.

Main Results:

Achieved high classification accuracies of 98.59% on MNIST and 90.4% on Fashion-MNIST with only 40k tunable parameters.
Outperformed conventional five-layer cascaded D2NNs (91.33% MNIST, 83.67% Fashion-MNIST) with fewer parameters.
Demonstrated robust performance (97.95% MNIST, 88.7% Fashion-MNIST) even with 10k parameters and resilience against phase perturbations.

Conclusions:

The proposed single-layer, dual-wavelength D2NN offers a more robust and scalable framework for practical photonic computation.
This design effectively circumvents non-negativity constraints and alleviates performance degradation from mechanical misalignment.
Significant improvements in accuracy and parameter efficiency compared to conventional multi-layer D2NNs.