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In computational design and fabrication, neural networks are becoming important surrogates for bulky forward simulations. A long-standing, intertwined question is that of inverse design: how to compute a design that satisfies a desired…

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Photons naturally solve the BosonSampling problem: sample the outputs of a multi-photon experiment in a linear-optical interferometer. This is strongly believed to be hard to do on a classical computer, and motivates the development of…

Numerical simulations have become an essential design tool in the field of photonics, especially for nanophotonics. In particular, 3D finite-difference-time-domain (FDTD) simulations are popular for their powerful design capabilities.…

Optics · Physics 2023-03-31 Michael Efseaff , Kyle Wynne , Krishna Narayan , Mark C. Harrison

The ability to control multidimensional quantum systems is key for the investigation of fundamental science and for the development of advanced quantum technologies. Here we demonstrate a multidimensional integrated quantum photonic…

Quantum annealers of D-Wave Systems, Inc., offer an efficient way to compute high quality solutions of NP-hard problems. This is done by mapping a problem onto the physical qubits of the quantum chip, from which a solution is obtained after…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-30 Elijah Pelofske , Georg Hahn , Hristo N. Djidjev

We demonstrate a multi-fidelity (MF) machine learning ensemble framework for the inverse design of photonic surfaces, trained on a dataset of 11,759 samples that we fabricate using high throughput femtosecond laser processing. The MF…

Inverse problems in imaging are typically ill-posed and are usually solved by employing regularized optimization techniques. The usage of appropriate constraints can restrict the solution space, thus making it feasible for a reconstruction…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-14 Jasleen Birdi , Tamal Majumder , Debanjan Halder , Muskan Kularia , Kedar Khare

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…

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Fusion-based quantum computation is a promising quantum computing model where small-sized photonic resource states are simultaneously entangled and measured by fusion gates. Such operations can be readily implemented with scalable photonic…

Programmable photonic integrated circuits (PICs) are emerging as powerful tools for the precise manipulation of light, with applications in quantum information processing, optical range finding, and artificial intelligence. The leading…

Quantum theory allows information to flow through a single device in a coherent superposition of two opposite directions, resulting into situations where the input-output direction is indefinite. Here we introduce a theoretical method to…

We propose and analyze the design of a programmable photonic integrated circuit for high-fidelity quantum computation and simulation. We demonstrate that the reconfigurability of our design allows us to overcome two major impediments to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-30 Jacob Mower , Nicholas C. Harris , Gregory R. Steinbrecher , Yoav Lahini , Dirk Englund

In this work, we consider the inverse electromagnetic scattering problem for a magneto-dielectric cylinder covering an impedance cylinder of arbitrary shape. We solve it by introducing a divide-and-conquer framework using specially designed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-27 Leonidas Mindrinos , Nikolaos Pallikarakis , Nikolaos L Tsitsas

Optical computing represents a groundbreaking technology that leverages the unique properties of photons, with innate parallelism standing as its most compelling advantage. Parallel optical computing like cascaded Mach-Zehnder…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-25 Ziqi Wei , Yuanjian Wan , Yuhu Cheng , Xiao Yu , Peng Xie

A design framework to implement non-unitary input-output operations to a practical unitary photonic integrated circuit is described. This is achieved by utilising the cosine-sine decomposition to recover the unitarity of the original…

Optics · Physics 2025-01-15 Hussein Talib , Phillip D. Sewell , Ana Vukovic , Sendy Phang

We design a quantum repeater architecture, necessary for long distance quantum networks, using the recently proposed microwave cat state qubits, formed and manipulated via interaction between a superconducting nonlinear element and a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-13 Sourabh Kumar , Nikolai Lauk , Christoph Simon

Quantum computing harnesses the principles of quantum mechanics to solve problems that are intractable for classical computers. Quantum annealing, a specialized approach within quantum computing, is particularly effective for optimization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-07 Divakar Vashisth , Rodney Lessard , Tapan Mukerji

This paper presents an efficient parallel radiative transfer-based inverse-problem solver for time-domain optical tomography. The radiative transfer equation provides a physically accurate model for the transport of photons in biological…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-08-31 E. L. Gaggioli , O. P. Bruno

Superposing multiple plane waves can generate helicity lattices in which the optical helicity varies regularly in space. Here we propose an inverse design method for constructing arbitrary helicity structures based on placing a digital…

Optics · Physics 2023-08-09 Romuald Kilianski , Robert Bennett

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…