OCAC course materials
Optical Computing Academic Course materials are presented here
Course modules
Course structure
Fourier Optics
The solution of the Helmholtz equation and the Rayleigh–Sommerfeld diffraction integral.
Discrete Fourier Transform and FFT
DFT matrix, fast Fourier transform, circular convolution, and zero-padding.
Angular Spectrum Method
Plane wave decomposition, spatial response function.
Diffractive Optical Elements
Amplitude and phase modulation, thin lens, diffractive layer, SLM.
Optical Computers
Backpropagation, optimization methods (Adam, SGD), architectures D2NN, RNN, 4f-systems.