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Nanophotonic devices manipulate light at sub-wavelength scales, enabling tasks such as light concentration, routing, and filtering. Designing these devices is a challenging task. Traditionally, solving this problem has relied on…

The new era of artificial intelligence demands large-scale ultrafast hardware for machine learning. Optical artificial neural networks process classical and quantum information at the speed of light, and are compatible with silicon…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-12-24 D. Pierangeli , V. Palmieri , G. Marcucci , C. Moriconi , G. Perini , M. De Spirito , M. Papi , C. Conti

Optical imaging is commonly used for both scientific and technological applications across industry and academia. In image sensing, a measurement, such as of an object's position, is performed by computational analysis of a digitized image.…

Photonic neural networks have significant potential for high-speed neural processing with low latency and ultralow energy consumption. However, the on-chip implementation of a large-scale neural network is still challenging owing to its low…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Satoshi Sunada , Atsushi Uchida

Deep learning is currently being hyped as an almost magical tool for solving all kinds of difficult problems that computers have not been able to solve in the past. Particularly in the fields of computer vision and natural language…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-05-01 Peter R. Wiecha

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

Photonic systems for high-performance information processing have attracted renewed interest. Neuromorphic silicon photonics has the potential to integrate processing functions that vastly exceed the capabilities of electronics. We report…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-11-17 Alexander N. Tait , Thomas Ferreira de Lima , Ellen Zhou , Allie X. Wu , Mitchell A. Nahmias , Bhavin J. Shastri , Paul R. Prucnal

The simulation of nanophotonic structures relies on electromagnetic solvers, which play a crucial role in understanding their behavior. However, these solvers often come with a significant computational cost, making their application in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Liang Cheng , Prashant Singh , Francesco Ferranti

Quantum optical networks are instrumental to address fundamental questions and enable applications ranging from communication to computation and, more recently, machine learning. In particular, photonic artificial neural networks offer the…

Artificial intelligence (AI) has rapidly evolved into a critical technology; however, electrical hardware struggles to keep pace with the exponential growth of AI models. Free space optical hardware provides alternative approaches for…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-07 Xue Dong , Kai Lion , Fei Xia , YoonSeok Baek , Ziao Wang , Niao He , Sylvain Gigan

High-speed machine vision is increasing its importance in both scientific and technological applications. Neuro-inspired photonic computing is a promising approach to speed-up machine vision processing with ultralow latency. However, the…

Hyperdimensional (HD) computing is a set of neurally inspired methods for obtaining high-dimensional, low-precision, distributed representations of data. These representations can be combined with simple, neurally plausible algorithms to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Anthony Thomas , Sanjoy Dasgupta , Tajana Rosing

Nanophotonics, an interdisciplinary field merging nanotechnology and photonics, has enabled transformative advancements across diverse sectors including green energy, biomedicine, and optical computing. This review comprehensively examines…

Photonic computing, with potentials of high parallelism, low latency and high energy efficiency, have gained progressive interest at the forefront of neural network (NN) accelerators. However, most existing photonic computing accelerators…

Optics · Physics 2024-04-16 Ziyu Zhan , Hao Wang , Qiang Liu , Xing Fu

Neuromorphic computing takes inspiration from the brain to create energy efficient hardware for information processing, capable of highly sophisticated tasks. In this article, we make the case that building this new hardware necessitates…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Danijela Markovic , Alice Mizrahi , Damien Querlioz , Julie Grollier

Data-driven approaches have revolutionized the design and optimization of photonic metadevices by harnessing advanced artificial intelligence methodologies. This review takes a model-centric perspective that synthesizes emerging design…

Wavefront shaping is a powerful method to refocus light through a scattering medium. Its application to large spectral bandwidths or multiple wavelengths refocusing for nonlinear bio-imaging in-depth is however limited by spectral…

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

Implementing optical-based memory and utilizing it for computation on the nanoscale remains an attractive but still a challenging task. While significant progress was achieved in nanophotonics, allowing to explore nonlinear optical effects…

Software-implementation, via neural networks, of brain-inspired computing approaches underlie many important modern-day computational tasks, from image processing to speech recognition, artificial intelligence and deep learning…

Optics · Physics 2021-02-19 J. Feldmann , N. Youngblood , C. D. Wright , H. Bhaskaran , W. H. P. Pernice