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Photonic computing has emerged as a promising substrate for accelerating the dense linear-algebra operations at the heart of AI, yet adoption for large Transformer models remains in its infancy. We identify two bottlenecks: (1) costly…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Hanqing Zhu , Zhican Zhou , Shupeng Ning , Xuhao Wu , Ray Chen , Yating Wan , David Pan

The explosive growth of computation and energy cost of artificial intelligence has spurred strong interests in new computing modalities as potential alternatives to conventional electronic processors. Photonic processors that execute…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Kaixuan Wei , Xiao Li , Johannes Froech , Praneeth Chakravarthula , James Whitehead , Ethan Tseng , Arka Majumdar , Felix Heide

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

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…

Photonic technologies have shown a promising way to build high-speed and high-energy-efficiency neural network accelerators. In previously presented photonic neural networks, architectures are mainly designed for fully-connected layers.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-02 Shaofu Xu , Jing Wang , Weiwen Zou

In ground-based astronomy, starlight distorted by the atmosphere couples poorly into single-mode waveguides but a correction by adaptive optics, even if only partial, can boost coupling into the few-mode regime allowing the use of photonic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-31 Momen Diab , Aashana Tripathi , John Davenport , Aline N. Dinkelaker , Kalaga Madhav , Martin M. Roth

The ability to navigate light signals in two-dimensional networks of waveguide arrays is a prerequisite for the development of all-optical integrated circuits for information processing and networking. In this article, we present a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-15 Georgios M. Nikolopoulos

Modern machine learning applications require huge artificial networks demanding in computational power and memory. Light-based platforms promise ultra-fast and energy-efficient hardware, which may help in realizing next-generation data…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Carlo Michele Valensise , Ivana Grecco , Davide Pierangeli , Claudio Conti

We report the possibility of using a simple neural network for effortless restoration of low-light images inspired by the retina model, which mimics the neurophysiological principles and dynamics of various types of optical neurons. The…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-06 Yurui Ming , Yuanyuan Liang

Neural networks have opened up many new opportunities to utilize remotely sensed images in meteorology. Common applications include image classification, e.g., to determine whether an image contains a tropical cyclone, and image…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2020-05-08 Imme Ebert-Uphoff , Kyle A. Hilburn

Neural networks are one of the disruptive computing concepts of our time. However, they fundamentally differ from classical, algorithmic computing in a number of fundamental aspects. These differences result in equally fundamental, severe…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Xavier Porte , Anas Skalli , Nasibeh Haghighi , Stephan Reitzenstein , James A. Lott , Daniel Brunner

We design and model a single-layer, passive, all-optical silicon photonics neural network to mitigate optical link nonlinearities. The network nodes are formed by silicon microring resonators whose transfer function has been experimentally…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-01 Mattia Mancinelli , Paolo Bettotti , Lorenzo Pavesi

The ever-increasing demand for processing data with larger machine learning models requires more efficient hardware solutions due to limitations such as power dissipation and scalability. Optics is a promising contender for providing lower…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Ilker Oguz , Jih-Liang Hsieh , Niyazi Ulas Dinc , Uğur Teğin , Mustafa Yildirim , Carlo Gigli , Christophe Moser , Demetri Psaltis

With the recent successes of neural networks (NN) to perform machine-learning tasks, photonic-based NN designs may enable high throughput and low power neuromorphic compute paradigms since they bypass the parasitic charging of capacitive…

Artificial Neural Networks are computational network models inspired by signal processing in the brain. These models have dramatically improved the performance of many learning tasks, including speech and object recognition. However,…

Neuromorphic photonic accelerators are becoming increasingly popular, since they can significantly improve computation speed and energy efficiency, leading to femtojoule per MAC efficiency. However, deploying existing DL models on such…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Manos Kirtas , Nikolaos Passalis , Nikolaos Pleros , Anastasios Tefas

A fiber-based photonic lantern can couple an array of single-mode optical fibers to the guided modes of a multimode fiber, with the mapping between the single-mode fibers and guided modes fully described by a complex-valued transfer matrix.…

Convolution neural network (CNN), as one of the most powerful and popular technologies, has achieved remarkable progress for image and video classification since its invention in 1989. However, with the high definition video-data explosion,…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Yue Jiang , Wenjia Zhang , Fan Yang , Zuyuan He

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have become the de-facto standard in computer vision, as well as in many other pattern recognition tasks. A key drawback of DNNs is that the training phase can be very computationally expensive. Organizations or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Debesh Jha , Anis Yazidi , Michael A. Riegler , Dag Johansen , Håvard D. Johansen , Pål Halvorsen

Neural networks find widespread use in scientific and technological applications, yet their implementations in conventional computers have encountered bottlenecks due to ever-expanding computational needs. Photonic neuromorphic hardware,…