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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…

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…

physics.optics2023★ 24 cited

Quantum-limited stochastic optical neural networks operating at a few quanta per activation

Shi-Yuan Ma, Tianyu Wang, Jérémie Laydevant +2

Energy efficiency in computation is ultimately limited by noise, with quantum limits setting the fundamental noise floor. Analog physical neural networks hold promise for improved…

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,…

physics.optics2021★ 273 cited

An optical neural network using less than 1 photon per multiplication

Tianyu Wang, Shi-Yuan Ma, Logan G. Wright +3

Deep learning has rapidly become a widespread tool in both scientific and commercial endeavors. Milestones of deep learning exceeding human performance have been achieved for a gro…