Diffractive deep neural networks utilize successive, spatially-engineered diffractive surfaces trained via deep learning to all-optically process input optical fields based on a desired transformation. We present the design of a broadband diffractive network that can all-optically perform a large set of arbitrary complex-valued linear transformations, wherein the input/output data are encoded at W different wavelength channels, each assigned to a unique linear transformation, covering, e.g., W>100-2000. This broadband diffractive visual processor may foster the development of all-optical visual processors with substantial data bandwidth and parallel computation capabilities, creating intelligent machine vision systems for all-optical processing of multi-color or hyperspectral objects/scenes.
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