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20222026
most citedImage sensing with multilayer, nonlinear optical neural networks

271 citations · 317 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

physics.optics2026

Lithography-free in situ photonic inverse design

Yiqi Zhao, Martin M. Stein, Fan O. Wu +6

Inverse design has emerged as a powerful engineering approach in nanophotonics, leading to devices with unintuitive designs that extend beyond human intuition. However, inverse-des…

physics.optics2026

Programmable nonlinearity within nanophotonic waveguides

Benjamin A. Ash, Ryotatsu Yanagimoto, Mandar M. Sohoni +8

Nonlinear nanophotonics enables the engineering of optical functions using light-matter interactions in nanoscale structures with carefully designed geometries. Phase matching in n…

quant-ph2026

Exponential quantum advantage for learning signals with a single qubit

Ishaan Kannan, Sridhar Prabhu, Saeed A. Khan +7

Quantum technology has the potential to transform scientific discovery, but quantum advantages often require processing capabilities well beyond the reach of experimental platforms…

physics.optics2026

Measurement-Adapted Eigentask Representations for Photon-Limited Optical Readout

Tianyang Chen, Mandar M. Sohoni, Saeed A. Khan +5

Optical readout in low-light imaging is fundamentally limited by measurement noise, including photon shot noise, detector noise, and quantization error. In this regime, downstream…

cs.CV2026

Ultra-low-light computer vision using trained photon correlations

Mandar M. Sohoni, Jérémie Laydevant, Mathieu Ouellet +7

Illumination using correlated photon sources has been established as an approach to allowing high-fidelity images to be reconstructed from noisy camera frames by taking advantage o…

physics.optics2026

Machine vision with small numbers of detected photons per inference

Shi-Yuan Ma, Jérémie Laydevant, Mandar M. Sohoni +3

Machine vision, including object recognition and image reconstruction, is a central technology in many consumer devices and scientific instruments. The design of machine-vision sys…

quant-ph2025

Large-scale quantum reservoir computing using a Gaussian Boson Sampler

Valeria Cimini, Mandar M. Sohoni, Federico Presutti +7

A Gaussian boson sampler (GBS) is a special-purpose quantum computer that can be practically realized at large scale in optics. Here we report on experiments in which we used a fre…

physics.optics2025★ 21 cited

Programmable on-chip nonlinear photonics

Ryotatsu Yanagimoto, Benjamin A. Ash, Mandar M. Sohoni +7

Nonlinear photonics uses coherent interactions between optical waves to engineer functionality that is not possible with purely linear optics. Traditionally, the function of a nonl…

cs.ET2025★ 18 cited

Roadmap on Neuromorphic Photonics

Daniel Brunner, Bhavin J. Shastri, Mohammed A. Al Qadasi +147

This roadmap consolidates recent advances while exploring emerging applications, reflecting the remarkable diversity of hardware platforms, neuromorphic concepts, and implementatio…

quant-ph2024

Hamiltonian-reconstruction distance as a success metric for the Variational Quantum Eigensolver

Leo Joon Il Moon, Mandar M. Sohoni, Michael A. Shimizu +4

The Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) is a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm for quantum simulation that can be run on near-term quantum hardware. A challenge in VQE -- as wel…

physics.optics2024★ 7 cited

Arbitrary control over multimode wave propagation for machine learning

Tatsuhiro Onodera, Martin M. Stein, Benjamin A. Ash +10

Controlled multimode wave propagation can enable more space-efficient photonic processors than architectures based on discrete components connected by single-mode waveguides. Inste…

physics.optics2022★ 271 cited

Image sensing with multilayer, nonlinear optical neural networks

Tianyu Wang, Mandar M. Sohoni, Logan G. Wright +5

Optical imaging is commonly used for both scientific and technological applications across industry and academia. In image sensing, a measurement, such as of an object's position,…