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Optical neural networks (ONNs) have demonstrated record-breaking potential in high-performance neuromorphic computing due to their ultra-high execution speed and low energy consumption. However, current learning protocols fail to provide…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Jiaqi Gu , Chenghao Feng , Zheng Zhao , Zhoufeng Ying , Ray T. Chen , David Z. Pan

The optical neural network (ONN) is a promising hardware platform for next-generation neurocomputing due to its high parallelism, low latency, and low energy consumption. Previous ONN architectures are mainly designed for general matrix…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Chenghao Feng , Jiaqi Gu , Hanqing Zhu , Zhoufeng Ying , Zheng Zhao , David Z. Pan , Ray T. Chen

Having the potential for high speed, high throughput, and low energy cost, optical neural networks (ONNs) have emerged as a promising candidate for accelerating deep learning tasks. In conventional ONNs, light amplitudes are modulated at…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-18 Ruidi Qiu , Amro Eldebiky , Grace Li Zhang , Xunzhao Yin , Cheng Zhuo , Ulf Schlichtmann , Bing Li

Programmable optical neural networks (ONNs) can offer high-throughput and energy-efficient solutions for accelerating artificial intelligence (AI) computing. However, existing ONN architectures, typically based on cascaded unitary…

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…

Optical approaches have made great strides towards the goal of high-speed, energy-efficient computing necessary for modern deep learning and AI applications. Read-in and read-out of data, however, limit the overall performance of existing…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Alexander Song , Sai Nikhilesh Murty Kottapalli , Rahul Goyal , Bernhard Schölkopf , Peer Fischer

Optical neural network (ONN) is emerging as an attractive proposal for machine-learning applications, enabling high-speed computation with low-energy consumption. However, there are several challenges in applying ONN for industrial…

Optics · Physics 2019-05-21 Xiao-Ming Zhang , Man-Hong Yung

Recently, optical neural networks (ONNs) integrated in photonic chips has received extensive attention because they are expected to implement the same pattern recognition tasks in the electronic platforms with high efficiency and low power…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Tian Zhang , Jia Wang , Yihang Dan , Yuxiang Lanqiu , Jian Dai , Xu Han , Xiaojuan Sun , Kun Xu

Conventional integrated circuits (ICs) struggle to meet the escalating demands of artificial intelligence (AI). This has sparked a renewed interest in an unconventional computing paradigm: neuromorphic (brain-inspired) computing. However,…

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.…

Efficient machine learning inference is essential for the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence across various domains.On-chip optical computing has emerged as a transformative solution for accelerating machine learning tasks, owing to…

There has been growing interest in using photonic processors for performing neural network inference operations; however, these networks are currently trained using standard digital electronics. Here, we propose on-chip training of neural…

Recent years have seen a considerable surge of research on developing heuristic approaches to realize analog computing using physical waves. Among these, neuromorphic computing using light waves is envisioned to feature performance metrics…

Optics · Physics 2022-10-18 Cheng-Chia Tsai , Xiaoyan Huang , Zhicheng Wu , Zongfu Yu , Nanfang Yu

Optical Neural Networks (ONNs) promise significant advantages over traditional electronic neural networks, including ultrafast computation, high bandwidth, and low energy consumption, by leveraging the intrinsic capabilities of photonics.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Gianluca Kosmella , Ripalta Stabile , Jaron Sanders

The recent explosive compute growth, mainly fueled by the boost of AI and DNNs, is currently instigating the demand for a novel computing paradigm that can overcome the insurmountable barriers imposed by conventional electronic computing…

As deep neural network (DNN) models grow ever-larger, they can achieve higher accuracy and solve more complex problems. This trend has been enabled by an increase in available compute power; however, efforts to continue to scale electronic…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Liane Bernstein , Alexander Sludds , Ryan Hamerly , Vivienne Sze , Joel Emer , Dirk Englund

Neuromorphic engineering has emerged as a promising avenue for developing brain-inspired computational systems. However, conventional electronic AI-based processors often encounter challenges related to processing speed and thermal…

Optics · Physics 2025-01-03 Reyhane Ahmadi , Amirreza Ahmadnejad , Somayyeh Koohi

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…

Optical neural networks (ONNs) based on programmable photonic integrated circuits (PICs) offer a promising route toward low-latency and energy-efficient deep learning. However, conventional photonic implementations of matrix-vector…

Optical neural networks offer a route to low-latency and energy-efficient inference by encoding computation in light propagation. However, most existing implementations rely on planar photonic circuits or discretely spaced diffractive…

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