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Scalable quantum information processing with integrated photonics requires quantum logic operations with high fidelity and robustness. Directional couplers, the fundamental elements enabling quantum interference and logic operations, are…

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This article presents the implementation of on-chip iontronic circuits via small-scale integration of multiple ionic logic gates made of bi-polar polyelectrolyte diodes. These ionic circuits are analogous to solid-state electronic circuits,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-11-24 Barak Sabbagh , Noa Edri Fraiman , Alex Fish , Gilad Yossifon

We design, fabricate, and experimentally demonstrate a compact thermo-optic gate switch comprising a 3.78 um-long coupled L0-type photonic crystalmicrocavities on a silicon-on-insulator substrate. A nanohole is inserted in the center of…

We present a method to enact a deterministic, measurement-free, optically generated controlled-phase gate on two qubits defined by single electrons trapped in large-area quantum dots in a planar microcavity. This method is robust to optical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-28 T. D. Ladd , Y. Yamamoto

Any large-scale spiking neuromorphic system striving for complexity at the level of the human brain and beyond will need to be co-optimized for communication and computation. Such reasoning leads to the proposal for optoelectronic…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Bryce A. Primavera , Jeffrey M. Shainline

Superconducting digital computing systems, primarily involving Josephson junctions are actively being pursued as high performance and low energy dissipating alternatives to CMOS-based technologies for petascale and exascale computers,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Uday S. Goteti , Michael C. Hamilton

Integration of optical interconnects with silicon-based electronics can address the growing limitations facing chip-scale data transport as microprocessors become progressively faster. However, material lattice mismatch and incompatible…

We propose and develop a concept of magnonic logic gates enabling reversible computing. The gates consist of passive elements: waveguides, cross-junctions and phase shifters. Logical 0 and 1 are encoded in the relative phase of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-11-13 Alexander Khitun

All-optical logic gates have significantly advanced over a diverse range of photonic systems, boosted by intricate nonlinearities that facilitate the engineering of complex logic operations. Here, we demonstrate that in semiconductor…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-24 Tobias Schneider , Stefan Schumacher , Xuekai Ma

All-optical logic-gate-based switching is a prerequisite for photonic computing. This article introduces a logic-gate protocol for noncollinear four-wave mixing (FWM) of one attosecond extreme ultraviolet (XUV) with two few-femtosecond near…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-02 Patrick Rupprecht , Daniel M. Neumark , Stephen R. Leone

Quantum technologies based on photons are anticipated in the areas of information processing, communication, metrology, and lithography. While there have been impressive proof-of-principle demonstrations in all of these areas, future…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-03-31 Alberto Politi , Martin J. Cryan , John G. Rarity , Siyuan Yu , Jeremy L. O'Brien

Nonlinear photonic chips have succeeded in generating and processing signals all-optically with performance far superior to that possible electronically - particularly with respect to speed. Although silicon-on-insulator has been the…

Optics · Physics 2014-10-07 D. J. Moss , R. Morandotti

The realization of all-optical logic gates (AOLGs) is important for advancing photonic integrated circuit (PIC) design and optical data communication. Various photonic structures and design techniques, including two-dimensional photonic…

On-chip optical isolators play a key role in optical communications and computing based on silicon integrated photonic structures. Recently there have raised great attentions and hot controversies upon isolation of light via linear and…

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Neural networks have proven effective for solving many difficult computational problems. Implementing complex neural networks in software is very computationally expensive. To explore the limits of information processing, it will be…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-20 Jeffrey M. Shainline , Sonia M. Buckley , Richard P. Mirin , Sae Woo Nam

Photonic integrated circuits are gaining traction in the field of telecommunications and information processing for their low-loss and high-throughput data transmission in comparison to electronic integrated circuits. However, they are…

Optics · Physics 2025-08-08 Fahmy Yousry , Panu Hildén , Radoslaw Kolkowski , Andriy Shevchenko

Quantum information processing holds great promise for communicating and computing data efficiently. However, scaling current photonic implementation approaches to larger system size remains an outstanding challenge for realizing disruptive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 Carsten Schuck , Xiang Guo , Linran Fan , Xiao-Song Ma , Menno Poot , Hong X. Tang

Femtosecond laser writing in glass was harnessed to fabricate photonic circuits comprised of waveguides, micro-mirrors, and fiber sockets, in an optical interposer chip. The compact design enabled ultra-dense routing of 40 optical channels…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-02 Gligor Djogo , Amir Rahimnouri , Peter R Herman

Photonic quantum technologies promise to repeat the success of integrated nanophotonic circuits in non-classical applications. Using linear optical elements, quantum optical computations can be performed with integrated optical circuits and…