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physics.optics2026
Breaking the Cascade: Compact Nonlinear Optical Computing with Single-Layer Encoder-Decoder Co-Localization
Yuntian Wang, Alexander Chen, Md Sadman Sakib Rahman +1
We demonstrate that nonlinear computing can be achieved with a single linear diffractive surface under coherent illumination. We introduce a compact encoder-decoder co-localization…
physics.optics2026
Large-scale nonlinear optical computing with incoherent light via linear diffractive systems
Alexander Chen, Yuntian Wang, Md Sadman Sakib Rahman +2
Nonlinear computation is essential for various information processing tasks. Optical implementations are attractive because passive light propagation can manipulate high-dimensiona…