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Recent Developments of Diffractive Optical Sensors Using Machine Learning

Session Organizers

Dr. Pavel A. Khorin
Samara National Research University, Saint-Petersburg State University, ITMO University

Session Information

This session provides an opportunity for AI-powered diffractive optics researchers from around the world to share their recent advances. The purpose of this session is to present the high-quality research exploring novel properties of established diffractive optical elements, metasurfaces, and proposing innovative sensor designs using ML. Special emphasis is placed on the intersection of nanophotonics and plasmonics with intelligent computational methods to achieve ultra-sensitive and multifunctional sensing platforms.
We welcome original research talks and overviews. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Machine Learning-enhanced Design and Optimization of Diffractive Optical Sensors
  • Novel Sensing Paradigms Using Reconfigurable Diffractive Elements
  • Metasurface-based Sensors for Biochemical and Physical Measurements
  • Computational Sensing with Diffractive Optical Components
  • Multi-functional Diffractive Elements for Advanced Sensing Applications
  • Integration of Diffractive Optical Elements-based Sensors with AI for Data Analysis and Interpretation
  • Nanophotonic and Plasmonic-enhanced Diffractive Sensors for Ultra-sensitive Detection
  • Machine Learning for the Inverse Design of Nanophotonic and Plasmonic Diffractive Sensors
  • Advanced Nanophotonic and Plasmonic Structures for Intelligent Diffractive Sensing

Submitted Articles

Note: The following submitted articles are not guaranteed to be scheduled in the final program at this stage. The final presentation type and arranged session will be decided by Technical Program Committee.
Note: +: Presenting Author, *: Corresponding Author
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Programmable Diffractive Neural Networks for Information Sensing, Processing and Computing in Electromagnetic Space
*Qian Ma (Southeast University), +Tie Jun Cui (Southeast University)

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Deep-learning Tools to Untangle Light-scattering for Imaging
***, +*Tom Vettenburg (University of Dundee)

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Nanoporous Metals as Versatile Optical Metasurfaces
+*Denis Garoli (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia)

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Data-driven Identification of Bound States in the Continuum in Disordered Dielectric Metasurfaces
Kliment V. Semushev (ITMO University), Nikolai Andreevich Vlasov (ITMO University), ***, Ravshanjon Nazarov (ITMO University), Zarina F. Sadrieva (ITMO University), +*Ekaterina E. Maslova (ITMO University)

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Ultrabroadband and Ultrasensitive SWIR Molecular Fingerprinting via Acoustic MXene Plasmons
+Jisung Kwon (Korea University), Changhoon Park (Korea University), *Myung-Ki Kim (Korea University)

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AI-Informed Optics at the Diffraction Limit
+*Dmitry V. Dylov (Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology)

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Design of Metastructure-enhanced Terahertz Sensors
+*Li Li (Harbin Institute of Technology), Fei Yan (Harbin Institute of Technology), Hao Tian (Harbin Institute of Technology)

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Photoinduced Metasurface Tuning for Ultrafast Optical Image Processing
+*Alexander S. Shorokhov (Lomonosov Moscow State University)

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Machine-learning-enhanced Raman Microscopy for Rapid and Sensitive Molecular Diagnostics
+*Katsumasa Fujita (The University of Osaka)

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Investigation of Fiber Microlenses of Various Types by Optical Frequency Domain Reflectometry
+*Anatoliy Pankov (Perm State University), R. S. Ponomarev (Perm State University), F. E. Khasnullin (Perm State University), M. E. Belokrilov (ICMM of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences), Y. A. Konstantinov (ICMM of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences)

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Radiative Decay Tuning of Metasurface Resonances for Improved Optical Sensing
+*Stefan Alexander Maier (Monash University)

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Optical Sensing Enabled by Laser-printed Plasmonic Metasurfaces
+*Aleksandr A. Kuchmizhak (Institute of Automation and Control Processes, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Science)

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Resonant Metasurface Chiroptical Sensing: Overcoming Fidelity and Noise Limits
+*Ting Mei (Northwestern Polytechnical University), ***, Qiwei Miao (Northwestern Polytechnical University)

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Decomposition of Optical Vorices under Tight Focusing Conditions
+*Sergey S. Stafeev (NRC ``Kurchatov Institute''), Victor V. Kotlyar (NRC ``Kurchatov Institute'')

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Machine-Learning Techniques for Controlled Hybrid Quantum Systems toward Quantum Information
+Shirong Lin (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

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Optical Physical Learning Machines with Multiple Light Scattering Media
+*Hao Wang (City University of Hong Kong), Ziao Wang (Sorbonne Université, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)), Jianqi Hu (The University of Hong Kong), Qiang Liu (Tsinghua University), Sylvain Gigan (Sorbonne Université, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS))

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Simulating Finite Resonant Photonic Structures with Varying Parameters Using Spatiotemporal Coupled-mode Theory
+*Dmitry A. Bykov (Image Processing Systems Institute, NRC ``Kurchatov Institute''), Evgeni A. Bezus (Image Processing Systems Institute, NRC ``Kurchatov Institute''), Vladimir V. Podlipnov (Samara National Research University), Leonid L. Doskolovich (Image Processing Systems Institute, NRC ``Kurchatov Institute'')

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Plasmonic Metasurfaces: Enhancing Mechanical Modes
Juan Ignacio Sangiorgio (CONICET --- Universidad de Buenos Aires), Diya Xie (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)), Cortes Emiliano (Imperial College London), Andrea Verónica Bragas (Universidad de Buenos Aires), Gustavo Grinblat (CONICET --- Universidad de Buenos Aires)

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Classifying Optical Skyrmions with Deep Diffractive Neural Networks
+*Isaac Nape (University of the Witwatersrand), Andrew Forbes (University of the Witwatersrand), ***, ***, Cade Peters (University of the Witwatersrand)

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Structured radiation generated with metaphotonics
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Learned Phase Control in Digital Lasers for Reconfigurable Structured Light Generation Using Machine-Learning
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Recent Progress in Multichannel Diffractive Wavefront Sensing using Machine Learning
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Large scale optimization of cascaded diffractive optical systems
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Development and Characterizing of Optical Components for Visible and Terahertz Bands
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Combining High-Resolution Silicon Nanofabrication with Inverse Design for High-Performance Silicon Nanophotonics
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Application of Deep Learning Technologies for Recognition of the Characteristics of Optical Vortices
+*Elena Sergeevna Kozlova (Samara National Research University & NRC "Kurchatov Institute"), Dmitry O. Shilov (Samara National Research University), Ilya V. Sobolev (Samara National Research University)

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