Optical Group Effects in Artificial Intelligence

AI often involves the processing of data in a neighborhood. That is, the context of a data point is almost always central to mapping the data point into a reduced latent space. Similarly, in optics, the neighborhood of a point in a wavefront can have a drastic effect on the propagation of the wavefront. In this dissertation, I explore a variety of optical group effects with applications in AI. Group effects are those optical effects that have spatial or temporal dependence on a neighborhood. These effects include the propagation of light, the in-built nonlinearity of intensity, the Fourier transform of the lens, symmetry, multiple reflections with kaleidoscopes, coherent optical processors, 4f and joint transform correlator, near field with bow ties, and pulses.

Author

• George, Jonathan Keith

Language

• en

Keyword

• photonic neural networks
• symmetry
• photonics

Date created

• 2023

Type of Work

• Dissertation

License

• All rights reserved

Rights statement

• In Copyright

GW Unit

• Electrical Engineering

Degree

• D.Engr.

Advisor

• Sorger, Volker

Committee Member(s)

• Ahmadi, Shahrokh
• Nagel, David
• Dalir, Hamed
• Eom, Kie-Bum

Persistent URL

•  https://scholarspace.library.gwu.edu/etd/0v8381465