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Main Authors: Jandrell, Joshua R., Cox, Mitchell A.
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19751
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author Jandrell, Joshua R.
Cox, Mitchell A.
author_facet Jandrell, Joshua R.
Cox, Mitchell A.
contents Predicting the effects of physical perturbations on optical channels is critical for advanced photonic devices, but existing modelling techniques are often computationally intensive or require exhaustive characterisation. We present a novel data-efficient machine learning framework that learns the perturbation-dependent transmission matrix of a multimode fibre. To overcome the challenge of modelling the resulting highly oscillatory functions, we encode the perturbation into a Fourier Feature basis, enabling a compact multi-layer perceptron to learn the mapping with high fidelity. On experimental data from a compressed fibre, our model predicts the output field with a 0.995 complex correlation to the ground truth, improving accuracy by an order of magnitude over standard networks while using 85\% fewer parameters. This approach provides a general tool for modelling complex optical systems from sparse measurements.
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spellingShingle High-Fidelity Prediction of Perturbed Optical Fields using Fourier Feature Networks
Jandrell, Joshua R.
Cox, Mitchell A.
Optics
Machine Learning
Computational Physics
Predicting the effects of physical perturbations on optical channels is critical for advanced photonic devices, but existing modelling techniques are often computationally intensive or require exhaustive characterisation. We present a novel data-efficient machine learning framework that learns the perturbation-dependent transmission matrix of a multimode fibre. To overcome the challenge of modelling the resulting highly oscillatory functions, we encode the perturbation into a Fourier Feature basis, enabling a compact multi-layer perceptron to learn the mapping with high fidelity. On experimental data from a compressed fibre, our model predicts the output field with a 0.995 complex correlation to the ground truth, improving accuracy by an order of magnitude over standard networks while using 85\% fewer parameters. This approach provides a general tool for modelling complex optical systems from sparse measurements.
title High-Fidelity Prediction of Perturbed Optical Fields using Fourier Feature Networks
topic Optics
Machine Learning
Computational Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19751