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In this work, we demonstrate a compact toolkit of inverse-designed topologically optimized silicon-photonic devices that are arranged in a plug-and-play fashion to realize many different photonic integrated circuits, both passive and…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Richard Soref , Dusan Gostimirovic

Photonic computing promises ultrafast and energy-efficient artificial intelligence. However, existing photonic neural networks (PNNs) remain functionally shallow and difficult to scale. Here we establish a theory-guided framework showing…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-25 Yuxin Sun , Chun Gao , Jin Xie , Pan Wang , Zejie Yu , Yiwei Xie , Huan Li , Daoxin Dai

Photonic entanglement has a wide range of applications in quantum computation and communication. Here we introduce a new device: the "photonic module", which allows for the rapid, deterministic preparation of a large class of entangled…

Integrated photonics is a powerful contender in the race for a fault-tolerant quantum computer, claiming to be a platform capable of scaling to the necessary number of qubits. This necessitates the use of high-quality quantum states, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-31 Ben M. Burridge , Imad I. Faruque , John G. Rarity , Jorge Barreto

Photonic quantum computing is a promising platform for scalable quantum machine learning, but designing effective hybrid architectures remains challenging under hardware and optimization constraints. Existing approaches rely on manually…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 Farah Elnakhal , Alberto Marchisio , Nouhaila Innan , Gabriel Falcao , Muhammad Shafique

Photonic device development (PDD) has achieved remarkable success in designing and implementing new devices for controlling light across various wavelengths, scales, and applications, including telecommunications, imaging, sensing, and…

Microelectronic integration is a key enabler for the ubiquitous deployment of devices in large volumes ranging from MEMS and imaging sensors to consumer electronics. Such integration has also been achieved in photonics, where compact…

As photonics breaks away from today's device level toward large scale of integration and complex systems-on-a-chip, concepts like monitoring, control and stabilization of photonic integrated circuits emerge as new paradigms. Here, we show…

In recent years, hybrid design strategies combining machine learning (ML) with electromagnetic optimization algorithms have emerged as a new paradigm for the inverse design of photonic structures and devices. While a trained, data-driven…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-03 Christopher Yeung , Benjamin Pham , Ryan Tsai , Katherine T. Fountaine , Aaswath P. Raman

Recent advances of quantum technologies rely on precise control and integration of quantum objects, and technological breakthrough is anticipated for further scaling up to realize practical applications. Trapped-ion quantum technology is a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Alto Osada , Koichiro Miyanishi

The ability to tailor laser light on a chip using integrated photonics has allowed for extensive control over fundamental light-matter interactions in manifold quantum systems including atoms, trapped ions, quantum dots, and defect centers.…

Following the simple observation that the interconnection of a set of quantum optical input-output devices can be specified using structural mode VHSIC Hardware Description Language (VHDL), we demonstrate a computer-aided schematic capture…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Nikolas Tezak , Armand Niederberger , Dmitri S. Pavlichin , Gopal Sarma , Hideo Mabuchi

Nonlinear photonics uses coherent interactions between optical waves to engineer functionality that is not possible with purely linear optics. Traditionally, the function of a nonlinear-optical device is determined during design and fixed…

Large-scale generation of quantum entanglement between individually controllable qubits is at the core of quantum computing, communications, and sensing. Modular architectures of remotely-connected quantum technologies have been proposed…

Photonic computing offers a low-power, high-bandwidth paradigm for information processing; however, the analogue nature of conventional architectures means that intrinsic noise and fabrication imperfections greatly impact performance,…

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

A fundamental challenge in the design of photonic devices, and electromagnetic structures more generally, is the optimization of their overall architecture to achieve a desired response. To this end, topology or shape optimizers based on…

Optimization methods are playing an increasingly important role in all facets of photonics engineering, from integrated photonics to free space diffractive optics. However, efforts in the photonics community to develop optimization…

Reconfigurable photonic integrated circuits (PICs) can implement arbitrary operations and signal processing functionalities directly in the optical domain. Run-time configuration of these circuits requires an electronic control layer to…

Recent advances in photonic inverse design have demonstrated the ability to automatically synthesize compact, high-performance photonic components that surpass conventional, hand-designed structures, offering a promising path toward…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-18 Hongjian Zhou , Haoyu Yang , Nicholas Gangi , Tianle Xu , Rena Huang , Jiaqi Gu