AI RESEARCH
Photonic AI: A Hybrid Diffractive Holographic Neural System for Passive Optical Real-Time Image Classification
arXiv CS.LG
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ArXi:2604.15364v1 Announce Type: cross Edge intelligence is constrained by the energy and latency costs of shuttling data through electronic memory hierarchies. Optical systems offer a fundamentally different computational regime: once an input wavefront is launched into a structured medium, propagation, diffraction, and interference jointly enact a linear transformation whose cost is determined by wave physics rather than by clocked arithmetic. This paper develops a rigorous systems-level treatment of that regime and.