Deep Mutual Learning-Based Mode Recognition of Orbital Angular Momentum

Due to its orbital angular momentum (OAM), optical vortex has been widely used in communications and LIDAR target detection. The OAM mode recognition based on deep learning is mostly based on the basic convolutional neural network. To ensure high-precision OAM state detection, a deeper network struc...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Photonics
Main Authors: Tan Qu, Zhiming Zhao, Yan Zhang, Jiaji Wu, Zhensen Wu
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023
Subjects:
DML
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics10121357
https://doaj.org/article/8a89f8e66f844d6482612652531e8908
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Summary:Due to its orbital angular momentum (OAM), optical vortex has been widely used in communications and LIDAR target detection. The OAM mode recognition based on deep learning is mostly based on the basic convolutional neural network. To ensure high-precision OAM state detection, a deeper network structure is required to overcome the problem of similar light intensity distribution of different superimposed vortex beams and the effect of atmospheric turbulence disturbance. However, the large number of parameters and the computation of the OAM state detection network conflict with the requirements of deploying optical communication system equipment. In this paper, an online knowledge distillation scheme is selected to achieve an end-to-end single-stage training and the inter-class dark knowledge of similar modes are fully utilized. An optical vortex OAM state detection technique based on deep mutual learning (DML) is proposed. The simulation results show that after mutual learning training, a small detection network with higher accuracy can be obtained, which is more suitable for terminal deployment. Based on the scalability of the number of networks in the DML queue, it provides a new possibility to further improve the detection accuracy of the optical communication.