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Inverse-designed nanophotonic devices offer promising solutions for analog optical computation. High-density photonic integration is critical for scaling such architectures toward more complex computational tasks and large-scale…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-09 Joel Sved , Shijie Song , Liwei Li , George Li , Debin Meng , Xiaoke Yi

Analog photonic solutions offer unique opportunities to address complex computational tasks with unprecedented performance in terms of energy dissipation and speeds, overcoming current limitations of modern computing architectures based on…

The growing demand for edge computing and AI drives research into analog in-memory computing using memristors, which overcome data movement bottlenecks by computing directly within memory. However, device failures and variations critically…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Zhicheng Xu , Jiawei Liu , Sitao Huang , Zefan Li , Shengbo Wang , Bo Wen , Ruibin Mao , Mingrui Jiang , Giacomo Pedretti , Jim Ignowski , Kaibin Huang , Can Li

In recent years, with the rapid development of electro-optic modulators, optical computing has become a potential excellent candidate for various computing tasks. New structures and devices for optical computing are emerging one after…

Optics · Physics 2023-09-20 Yufeng Zhang , Hao Yan , Kaizhi Wang

Reservoir computing is an information processing technique, derived from the theory of neural networks, which is easy to implement in hardware. Several reservoir computer hardware implementations have been realized recently with performance…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2014-06-13 François Duport , Akram Akrout , Anteo Smerieri , Marc Haelterman , Serge Massar

The escalating demands of compute-intensive applications urgently necessitate the adoption of optical interconnect technologies to overcome bottlenecks in scaling computing systems. This requires fully exploiting the inherent parallelism of…

Metasurfaces -- ultrathin structures composed of subwavelength optical elements -- have revolutionized light manipulation by enabling precise control over electromagnetic waves' amplitude, phase, polarization, and spectral properties.…

Optics · Physics 2024-11-15 Charles Roques-Carmes , Kai Wang , Yuanmu Yang , Arka Majumdar , Zin Lin

Optical logic gates are fundamental blocks of optical computing to accelerate information processing. While significant progress has been achieved in recent years, existing implementations typically rely on dedicated structures that are…

Optics · Physics 2022-08-30 Zhipeng Yu , Yuchen Song , Tianting Zhong , Huanhao Li , Wei Zheng , Puxiang Lai

Hypercomplex image processing extends conventional techniques in a unified paradigm encompassing algebraic and geometric principles. This work leverages quaternions and the two-dimensional orthogonal planes split framework (splitting of a…

Motivated by the recent renewed interest in compact analog computing using light and metasurfaces (Silva, A. et al., Science 2014, 343, 160-163), we suggest a practical approach to its realization that involves reflective metasurfaces…

Optics · Physics 2016-09-16 Anders Pors , Michael G. Nielsen , Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi

Optical technology may provide important architectures for future computing, such as analog optical computing and image processing. Compared with traditional electric operation, optical operation has shown some unique advantages including…

Optics · Physics 2019-10-23 Shanshan He , Junxiao Zhou , Shizhen Chen , Weixing Shu , Hailu Luo , Shuangchun Wen

In the field of transformation optics, metamaterials mimic the effect of coordinate transformations on electromagnetic waves, creating the illusion that the waves are propagating through a virtual space. Transforming space by appropriately…

Optics · Physics 2009-08-18 Yun Gui Ma , C. K. Ong , Tomas Tyc , Ulf Leonhardt

Diffractive optical information processors have demonstrated significant promise in delivering high-speed, parallel, and energy efficient inference for scaling machine learning tasks. Training, however, remains a major computational…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-27 Manon P. Bart , Nick Sparks , Ryan T. Glasser

Meta-optics has achieved major breakthroughs in the past decade; however, conventional forward design faces challenges as functionality complexity and device size scale up. Inverse design aims at optimizing meta-optics design but has been…

Many forms of programmable matter have been proposed for various tasks. We use an abstract model of self-organizing particle systems for programmable matter which could be used for a variety of applications, including smart paint and…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Alexandra Porter , Andréa W. Richa

Bregman iterations are known to yield excellent results for denoising, deblurring and compressed sensing tasks, but so far this technique has rarely been used for other image processing problems. In this paper we give a thorough description…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-28 Laurent Hoeltgen , Michael Breuß

Meta-optics have rapidly become a major research field within the optics and photonics community, strongly driven by the seemingly limitless opportunities made possible by controlling optical wavefronts through interaction with arrays of…

In the last decades, great achievements have been made in the development of computing machines. However, due to exponential growth of transistor density and in particular due to tremendously increasing power consumption, researchers expect…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2014-07-03 Piyush Gautam

There is growing interest in engineering unconventional computing devices that leverage the intrinsic dynamics of physical substrates to perform fast and energy-efficient computations. Granular metamaterials are one such substrate that has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Atoosa Parsa , Corey S. O'Hern , Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio , Josh Bongard

Image processing has become a critical technology in a variety of science and engineering disciplines. While most image processing is performed digitally, optical analog processing has the advantages of being low-power and high-speed though…

Optics · Physics 2019-09-06 You Zhou , Hanyu Zheng , Ivan I. Kravchenko , Jason Valentine