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Optics offers unique opportunities for reducing energy in information processing and communications while resolving the problem of interconnect bandwidth density inside machines. Such energy dissipation overall is now at environmentally…

Optics · Physics 2017-01-30 David A. B. Miller

Convolutional neural networks are paramount in image and signal processing including the relevant classification and training tasks alike and constitute for the majority of machine learning compute demand today. With convolution operations…

We suggest a re-examination of the conventional view that hybrid optical-radio frequency (O-RF) systems are primarily diversity-driven networks that switch between RF and optical links for robustness. Instead, we uncover a new architectural…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Menghan Li , Yulin Shao , Runxin Zhang , Lu Lu

An optical circuit-switched network core has the potential to overcome the inherent challenges of a conventional electrical packet-switched core of today's compute clusters. As optical circuit switches (OCS) directly handle the photon beams…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Sushovan Das , Afsaneh Rahbar , Xinyu Crystal Wu , Zhuang Wang , Weitao Wang , Ang Chen , T. S. Eugene Ng

While acoustic communications have been considered the prominent technology to communicate under water for several years, other technologies are being developed based, e.g., on optical and radio-frequency electro-magnetic waves. Each…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Roee Diamant , Paolo Casari , Filippo Campagnaro , Oleksiy Kebkal , Veronika Kebkal , Michele Zorzi

Future 5G services are characterised by unprecedented need for high rate, ubiquitous availability, ultra-low latency and high reliability. The fragmented network view that is widespread in current networks will not stand the challenge posed…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-12-14 Marco Ruffini

Microwave-optical quantum transduction is a key enabling technology in quantum networking, but has been plagued by a formidable technical challenge. As most microwave-optical-transduction techniques rely on three-wave mixing processes, the…

The unprecedented growth of the global Internet traffic, coupled with the large spatio-temporal fluctuations that create, to some extent, predictable tidal traffic conditions, are motivating the evolution from reactive to proactive and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Tania Panayiotou , Maria Michalopoulou , Georgios Ellinas

Sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks evolve from connecting devices to connecting intelligence. The focus turns to Goal-Oriented Communications, where the effectiveness of communication is assessed through task-level objectives over…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Lorenzo Mario Amorosa , Zhan Gao , Tony Chahoud , Yiqun Wu , Lukas Eller , Marco Skocaj , Roberto Verdone

The throughput of multicell systems is inherently limited by interference and the available communication resources. Coordinated resource allocation is the key to efficient performance, but the demand on backhaul signaling and computational…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-09-12 Emil Björnson , Niklas Jaldén , Mats Bengtsson , Björn Ottersten

With the advantages of high-speed parallel processing, quantum computers can efficiently solve large-scale complex optimization problems in future networks. However, due to the uncertain qubit fidelity and quantum channel noise, distributed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Napat Ngoenriang , Minrui Xu , Jiawen Kang , Dusit Niyato , Han Yu , Xuemin , Shen

We present an all-optical routing scheme based simultaneously on optically induced photonic structures and the Airy beam family. The presented work utilizes these accelerating beams for the demonstration of an all-optical router with…

Optics · Physics 2013-03-12 Patrick Rose , Falko Diebel , Martin Boguslawski , Cornelia Denz

Diffractive optical networks unify wave optics and deep learning to all-optically compute a given machine learning or computational imaging task as the light propagates from the input to the output plane. Here, we report the design of…

Optics · Physics 2022-05-23 Deniz Mengu , Muhammed Veli , Yair Rivenson , Aydogan Ozcan

High-speed photonic switching networks can switch optical signals at the rate of several terabits per second. However, they suffer from an intrinsic crosstalk problem when two optical signals cross at the same switch element. To avoid…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-11-11 Yun Deng , Tony T. Lee

This paper introduces a framework to capture previously intractable optimization constraints and transform them to a mixed-integer linear program, through the use of neural networks. We encode the feasible space of optimization problems…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-15 Ilgiz Murzakhanov , Andreas Venzke , George S. Misyris , Spyros Chatzivasileiadis

Fundus photography and Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography (OCT-A) are two commonly used modalities in ophthalmic imaging. With the development of deep learning algorithms, fundus image processing, especially retinal vessel…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-07 Weilin Fu , Lennart Husvogt , Stefan Ploner James G. Fujimoto Andreas Maier

Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM)-based waveforms are used for communication links in many current and emerging Internet of Things (IoT) applications, including the latest WiFi standards. For such OFDM-based transceivers,…

Optical fibres are the primary medium for optical signal transmission, and their guided modes provide a high-dimensional basis for modal-domain information encoding. However, conventional demultiplexing approaches typically convert fibre…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-29 Rundong Fan , Yamin Zheng , Pei Li , Xixiao Cao , Haoyang Wu , Zheng Cai , Lei Huang

Low latency, high throughput inference on Convolution Neural Networks (CNNs) remains a challenge, especially for applications requiring large input or large kernel sizes. 4F optics provides a solution to accelerate CNNs by converting…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Shurui Li , Mario Miscuglio , Volker J. Sorger , Puneet Gupta

Purpose: The integration of multimodal imaging into operating rooms paves the way for comprehensive surgical scene understanding. In ophthalmic surgery, by now, two complementary imaging modalities are available: operating microscope (OPMI)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Nikolo Rohrmoser , Ghazal Ghazaei , Michael Sommersperger , Nassir Navab