Irregular optical interconnections to compensate for non-uniformities in analog optical processors

A method comprising:

• substantially matching non-uniformities of a first optical device representing a vector with non-uniformities of a second optical device representing a matrix;
• optically interconnecting the first optical device with the second optical device in an irregular manner consistent with the substantially matching of the non-uniformities of the first optical device with the non-uniformities of the second optical device;
• and,
• providing light traveling through the first optical device and the second optical device along the irregular manner to yield a matrix-vector product of the vector represented by the first optical device and the matrix represent by the second optical device.

An analog optical processor device comprising:

• a first non-uniform optical device representing a first mathematical construct and having a plurality of sub-devices organized into a plurality of groups, each group representing a component of the first construct, the sub-devices of the group representing a grayscale response of the component of the first construct;
• and,
• a second non-uniform optical device representing a second mathematical construct, at least substantially matched to the first non-uniform optical device such that optical interconnects between the first and the second optical devices are irregular, and having a plurality of sub-devices organized into a plurality of groups, each group representing a component of the second construct, the sub-devices of the group representing a grayscale response of the component of the second construct,
• wherein light traveling through the first and the second optical devices represents a product of the first and the second mathematical constructs.