Frontiers in Optics

An optical neural network operating with less than 1 photon per multiplication

Tianyu Wang, Shi-Yuan Ma, Logan G. Wright, Tatsuhiro Onodera, Brian C. Richard, Peter L. McMahon

Published Jan 1, 2021• 4 citations

Abstract

We report an experimental demonstration of an optical neural network performing image classification with high accuracy using less than a single photon per scalar multiplication, validating theoretical predictions about quantum-limited performance of ONNs.

DOI: 10.1364/fio.2021.fth6c.2

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