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Among the objectives toward large-scale quantum computation is the quantum interconnect: a device which uses photons to interface qubits that otherwise could not interact. However, current approaches require photons indistinguishable in…

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Optical chips for quantum photonics are cutting-edge technology, merging photonics and quantum mechanics to manipulate light at the quantum level. These chips are crucial for advancing quantum computing, secure communication, and precision…

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Solid-state quantum emitters are excellent sources of on-demand indistinguishable or entangled photons and can host long-lived spin memories, crucial resources for photonic quantum information applications. However, their scalability…

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The interconnection network comprises a significant portion of the cost of large parallel computers, both in economic terms and power consumption. Several previous proposals exploit large-radix routers to build scalable low-distance…

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We show that programmable photonic circuit architectures composed of alternating mixing layers and active layers offer a high degree of flexibility. This alternating configuration enables the systematic tailoring of both the network's depth…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-30 Matthew Markowitz , Kevin Zelaya , Mohammad-Ali Miri

We present an optical circuit switch design for programmable integrated photonics (PIPs). Our solution finds the correct and optimal set of matchings that provides all-to-all network connectivity and demonstrates scalability to 32 ports.

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Eric Ding , Rachee Singh

Imaging through diffusive media is a challenging problem, where the existing solutions heavily rely on digital computers to reconstruct distorted images. We provide a detailed analysis of a computer-free, all-optical imaging method for…

Optics · Physics 2022-08-02 Yuhang Li , Yi Luo , Bijie Bai , Aydogan Ozcan

The rapid growth of artificial intelligence, coupled with the slowing of Moore's law, is straining computing infrastructure, as CMOS electronics face inherent limits in bandwidth, energy efficiency, and parallelism. Integrated photonic…

Photonic computation started to shape the future of fast, efficient and accessible computation. The advantages brought by light based Diffractive Deep Neural Networks (D2NN), are shown to be overwhelmingly advantageous especially in…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-10 Anil J. Pekgöz , Emre Yüce

Recent success in deep neural networks has generated strong interest in hardware accelerators to improve speed and energy consumption. This paper presents a new type of photonic accelerator based on coherent detection that is scalable to…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Ryan Hamerly , Liane Bernstein , Alexander Sludds , Marin Soljačić , Dirk Englund

Recent advancements in quantum photonics have driven significant progress in photonic quantum computing (PQC), addressing challenges in scalability, efficiency, and fault tolerance. Experimental efforts have focused on integrated photonic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-07 Dennis Delali Kwesi Wayo , Leonardo Goliatt , Darvish Ganji

Integrated optics has brought unprecedented levels of stability and performance to quantum photonic circuits. However, integrated devices are not merely micron-scale equivalents of their bulk-optics counterparts. By exploiting the…

Optics · Physics 2016-02-24 Ryan P. Marchildon , Amr S. Helmy

Correlated photon pairs, carrying strong quantum correlations, have been harnessed to bring quantum advantages to various fields from biological imaging to range finding. Such inherent non-classical properties support extracting more valid…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-18 Zhan-Ming Li , Shi-Bao Wu , Jun Gao , Heng Zhou , Zeng-Quan Yan , Ruo-Jing Ren , Si-Yuan Yin , Xian-Min Jin

Spiking neural networks are known to be superior over artificial neural networks for their computational power efficiency and noise robustness. The benefits of spiking coupled with the high-bandwidth and low-latency of photonics can enable…

Realization of deep learning with coherent optical field has attracted remarkably attentions presently, which benefits on the fact that optical matrix manipulation can be executed at speed of light with inherent parallel computation as well…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-19 Yong-Liang Xiao , Rongguang Liang , Jianxin Zhong , Xianyu Su , Zhisheng You

Coronagraph designs which use photonic integrated circuits have the highest theoretical throughput for off-axis signals, and therefore the highest potential exoplanet yield for future high-contrast direct imaging campaigns. Using the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-13 Jonathan Lin

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 integration has witnessed tremendous progress over the last years, and chip-scale transceiver systems with Terabit/s data rates have come into reach. However, as on-chip integration density increases, efficient off-chip interfaces…

Large-scale programmable photonic circuits are opening up new possibilities for information processing providing fast and energy-efficient means for matrix-vector multiplication. Here, we introduce a novel architecture of photonic circuits…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-19 S. A. Fldzhyan , M. Yu. Saygin , S. S. Straupe

Correlated photon-pair sources are key components for quantum computing, networking, and sensing applications. Integrated photonics has enabled chip-scale sources using nonlinear processes, producing high-rate entanglement with sub-100…