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Main Authors: Rodríguez, Carla, Arlt, Sören, Möckl, Leonhard, Krenn, Mario
Format: Preprint
Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.08408
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author Rodríguez, Carla
Arlt, Sören
Möckl, Leonhard
Krenn, Mario
author_facet Rodríguez, Carla
Arlt, Sören
Möckl, Leonhard
Krenn, Mario
contents Driven by human ingenuity and creativity, the discovery of super-resolution techniques, which circumvent the classical diffraction limit of light, represent a leap in optical microscopy. However, the vast space encompassing all possible experimental configurations suggests that some powerful concepts and techniques might have not been discovered yet, and might never be with a human-driven direct design approach. Thus, AI-based exploration techniques could provide enormous benefit, by exploring this space in a fast, unbiased way. We introduce XLuminA, an open-source computational framework developed using JAX, which offers enhanced computational speed enabled by its accelerated linear algebra compiler (XLA), just-in-time compilation, and its seamlessly integrated automatic vectorization, auto-differentiation capabilities and GPU compatibility. Remarkably, XLuminA demonstrates a speed-up of 4 orders of magnitude compared to well-established numerical optimization methods. We showcase XLuminA's potential by re-discovering three foundational experiments in advanced microscopy. Ultimately, XLuminA identified a novel experimental blueprint featuring sub-diffraction imaging capabilities. This work constitutes an important step in AI-driven scientific discovery of new concepts in optics and advanced microscopy.
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spellingShingle XLuminA: An Auto-differentiating Discovery Framework for Super-Resolution Microscopy
Rodríguez, Carla
Arlt, Sören
Möckl, Leonhard
Krenn, Mario
Optics
Driven by human ingenuity and creativity, the discovery of super-resolution techniques, which circumvent the classical diffraction limit of light, represent a leap in optical microscopy. However, the vast space encompassing all possible experimental configurations suggests that some powerful concepts and techniques might have not been discovered yet, and might never be with a human-driven direct design approach. Thus, AI-based exploration techniques could provide enormous benefit, by exploring this space in a fast, unbiased way. We introduce XLuminA, an open-source computational framework developed using JAX, which offers enhanced computational speed enabled by its accelerated linear algebra compiler (XLA), just-in-time compilation, and its seamlessly integrated automatic vectorization, auto-differentiation capabilities and GPU compatibility. Remarkably, XLuminA demonstrates a speed-up of 4 orders of magnitude compared to well-established numerical optimization methods. We showcase XLuminA's potential by re-discovering three foundational experiments in advanced microscopy. Ultimately, XLuminA identified a novel experimental blueprint featuring sub-diffraction imaging capabilities. This work constitutes an important step in AI-driven scientific discovery of new concepts in optics and advanced microscopy.
title XLuminA: An Auto-differentiating Discovery Framework for Super-Resolution Microscopy
topic Optics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.08408