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Optical networks with parallel processing capabilities are significant in advancing high-speed data computing and large-scale data processing by providing ultra-width computational bandwidth. In this paper, we present a photonic integrated…

Any large-scale spiking neuromorphic system striving for complexity at the level of the human brain and beyond will need to be co-optimized for communication and computation. Such reasoning leads to the proposal for optoelectronic…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Bryce A. Primavera , Jeffrey M. Shainline

Optical and optoelectronic approaches of performing matrix-vector multiplication (MVM) operations have shown the great promise of accelerating machine learning (ML) algorithms with unprecedented performance. The incorporation of…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Weilu Gao , Cunxi Yu , Ruiyang Chen

Optical unitary converter (OUC) that can convert a set of N mutually orthogonal optical modes into another set of arbitrary N orthogonal modes is expected to be the key device in diverse applications, including the optical communication,…

The growing demand for real-time data processing in applications such as neural networks and embedded control systems has spurred the search for faster, more efficient alternatives to traditional electronic systems. In response, we…

Optical computing chips have emerged as a transformative computing technology due to their high computational density, low energy consumption, and compact footprint. While real- and complex-valued computing chips have been well developed,…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-06 Songyue Liu , Qi Lu , Yuan Zhong , Yuru Li , Meng Xiang , Zhaohui Li , Chao Lu , Yikai Su , Lu Sun

Operational Neural Networks (ONNs) have recently been proposed as a special class of artificial neural networks for grid structured data. They enable heterogenous non-linear operations to generalize the widely adopted convolution-based…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-04 Junaid Malik , Serkan Kiranyaz , Moncef Gabbouj

Neuromorphic photonic computing represents a paradigm shift for next-generation machine intelligence, yet critical gaps persist in emulating the brain's event-driven, asynchronous dynamics,a fundamental barrier to unlocking its full…

Recent advances in machine learning (ML) have spotlighted the pressing need for computing architectures that bridge the gap between memory bandwidth and processing power. The advent of deep neural networks has pushed traditional Von Neumann…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Febin Sunny , Amin Shafiee , Abhishek Balasubramaniam , Mahdi Nikdast , Sudeep Pasricha

Artificial neural networks (ANNs), have become ubiquitous and revolutionized many applications ranging from computer vision to medical diagnoses. However, they offer a fundamentally connectionist and distributed approach to computing, in…

Fast scanning-speed and low-power-consumption are becoming progressively more and more important in realizing high-performance chiplet optical phased arrays (OPAs). Here, we establish an integrated OPA based on thin-film lithium…

Integrated photonic reservoir computing has been demonstrated to be able to tackle different problems because of its neural network nature. A key advantage of photonic reservoir computing over other neuromorphic paradigms is its…

All-optical integrated circuits for computing and information processing have been pursued for decades as a potential strategy to overcome the speed limitations intrinsic to electronics. However feasible on-chip integrated logic units and…

Optics · Physics 2012-10-24 Chen Wang , Zhi-Yuan Li

The limitations of digital electronics in handling real-time matrix operations for emerging computational tasks - such as artificial intelligence, drug design, and medical imaging - have prompted renewed interest in analog computing.…

Domain-specific machine learning (ML) accelerators such as Google's TPU and Apple's Neural Engine now dominate CPUs and GPUs for energy-efficient ML processing. However, the evolution of electronic accelerators is facing fundamental limits…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Febin Sunny , Ebadollah Taheri , Mahdi Nikdast , Sudeep Pasricha

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

Light-weight convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have small complexity and are good candidates for low-power, high-throughput inference. Such networks are heterogeneous in terms of computation-to-communication (CTC) ratios and computation…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Tiandong Zhao , Yunxuan Yu , Kun Wang , Lei He

Nonlinear photonic chips are capable of generating and processing signals all-optically with performance far superior to that possible electronically - particularly with respect to speed. Although silicon has been the leading platform for…

Optics · Physics 2014-10-29 David J. Moss , Roberto Morandotti

Co-packaged optics is poised to solve the interconnect bandwidth bottleneck for GPUs and AI accelerators in near future. This technology can immediately boost today's AI/ML compute power to train larger neural networks that can perform more…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-06 Sajjad Moazeni

Photonic neuromorphic computing has emerged as a promising avenue toward building a low-latency and energy-efficient non-von-Neuman computing system. Photonic spiking neural network (PSNN) exploits brain-like spatiotemporal processing to…