On-chip diffractive optical neural networks (DONNs) bring the advantages of parallel processing and low energy consumption. However, an accurate representation of the optical field’s evolution in the structure cannot be provided using the previous diffraction-based analysis method. Moreover, the loss caused by the open boundaries poses challenges to applications. A multimode DONN architecture based on a more precise eigenmode analysis method is proposed. We have constructed a universal library of input, output, and metaline structures utilizing this method, and realized a multimode DONN composed of the structures from the library. On the designed multimode DONNs with only one layer of the metaline, the classification task of an Iris plants dataset is verified with an accuracy of 90% on the blind test dataset, and the performance of the one-bit binary adder task is also validated. Compared to the previous architectures, the multimode DONN exhibits a more compact design and higher energy efficiency.
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