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Silicon photonics enables wafer-scale integration of optical functionalities on chip. A silicon-based laser frequency combs could significantly expand the applications of silicon photonics, by providing integrated sources of mutually…

Research in photonic computing has flourished due to the proliferation of optoelectronic components on photonic integration platforms. Photonic integrated circuits have enabled ultrafast artificial neural networks, providing a framework for…

Coherent optics has profoundly impacted diverse applications ranging from communications, LiDAR to quantum computations. However, building coherent systems in integrated photonics previously came at great expense in hardware integration and…

High-dimensional encoding and hyper-entanglement are unique features that distinguish optical photons from other quantum information carriers, leading to improved system efficiency and novel quantum functions. However, the disparate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-29 Liang Zhang , Chaohan Cui , Jianchang Yan , Yanan Guo , Junxi Wang , Linran Fan

RF photonic transversal signal processors, which combine reconfigurable electrical digital signal processing and high-bandwidth photonic processing, provide a powerful solution for achieving adaptive high-speed information processing.…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-05 David J. Moss

As computing resource demands continue to escalate in the face of big data, cloud-connectivity and the internet of things, it has become imperative to develop new low-power, scalable architectures. Neuromorphic photonics, or photonic neural…

All-optical image processing offers a high-speed, energy-efficient alternative to conventional electronic systems by leveraging the wave nature of light for parallel computation. However, traditional optical processors rely on bulky…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-17 Linzhi Yu , Haobijam J. Singh , Jesse Pietila , Humeyra Caglayan

We present a silicon-photonic tensor core using 2D ferroelectric materials to enable wavelength- and polarization-domain computing. Results, based on experimentally characterized material properties, show up to 83% improvement in…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-03 Amin Shafiee , Linhong Chen , Sudeep Pasricha , Jie Yao , Mahdi Nikdast

Tensor cores, along with tensor processing units, represent a new form of hardware acceleration specifically designed for deep neural network calculations in artificial intelligence applications. Tensor cores provide extraordinary…

Edge devices equipped with computer vision must deal with vast amounts of sensory data with limited computing resources. Hence, researchers have been exploring different energy-efficient solutions such as near-sensor processing, in-sensor…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-24 Md Abdullah-Al Kaiser , Gourav Datta , Zixu Wang , Ajey P. Jacob , Peter A. Beerel , Akhilesh R. Jaiswal

The rapid growth in computing demands, particularly driven by artificial intelligence applications, has begun to exceed the capabilities of traditional electronic hardware. Optical computing offers a promising alternative due to its…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Shupeng Ning , Hanqing Zhu , Chenghao Feng , Jiaqi Gu , David Z. Pan , Ray T. Chen

Photonic RF transversal signal processors, which are equivalent to reconfigurable electrical digital signal processors but implemented with photonic technologies, have been widely used for modern high-speed information processing. With the…

Optics · Physics 2023-04-11 David J. Moss

The rapidly increasing demands for computational throughput, bandwidth, and memory capacity fueled by breakthroughs in machine learning pose substantial challenges for conventional electronic computing platforms. For digital scaling to keep…

Recent progress in photonic information processing has spurred strong demand in scalable and reconfigurable photonic circuitry. Conventional spatially-meshed multi-port interferometers require a number of components growing quadratically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Jasvith Raj Basani , Chaohan Cui , Jack Postlewaite , Edo Waks , Saikat Guha

In the "post-Moore era", the growing challenges in traditional computing have driven renewed interest in analog computing, leading to various proposals for the development of general-purpose analog computing (GPAC) systems. In this work, we…

Neuromorphic Computing implemented in photonic hardware is one of the most promising routes towards achieving machine learning processing at the picosecond scale, with minimum power consumption. In this work, we present a new concept for…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-11-01 K. Sozos , A. Bogris , P. Bienstman , G. Sarantoglou , S. Deligiannidis , C. Mesaritakis

Photonic neuromorphic computing promises revolutionary advances in parallel and high-speed processing, yet a key challenge persists: co-integrating nonlinearity, dense connectivity, and intrinsic memory monolithically to enable…

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

Convolution is an essential operation in signal and image processing and consumes most of the computing power in convolutional neural networks. Photonic convolution has the promise of addressing computational bottlenecks and outperforming…

Optics · Physics 2023-08-14 Lingling Fan , Kai Wang , Heming Wang , Avik Dutt , Shanhui Fan

Analog neuromorphic photonic processors are uniquely positioned to harness the ultrafast bandwidth and inherent parallelism of light, enabling scalability, on-chip integration and significant improvement in computational performance.…