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Integrated photonics based on silicon photonics platform is driving several application domains, from enabling ultra-fast chip-scale communication in high-performance computing systems to energy-efficient optical computation in artificial…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Felipe Gohring de Magalhães , Mahdi Nikdast , Gabriela Nicolescu

Neuromorphic photonics has recently emerged as a promising hardware accelerator, with significant potential speed and energy advantages over digital electronics, for machine learning algorithms such as neural networks of various types.…

Optics · Physics 2021-01-27 Changming Wu , Heshan Yu , Seokhyeong Lee , Ruoming Peng , Ichiro Takeuchi , Mo Li

Recently integrated optics has become an intriguing platform for implementing machine learning algorithms and inparticular neural networks. Integrated photonic circuits can straightforwardly perform vector-matrix multiplicationswith high…

Neuromorphic photonics relies on efficiently emulating analog neural networks at high speeds. Prior work showed that transducing signals from the optical to the electrical domain and back with transimpedance gain was an efficient approach…

Rapid advances in deep learning have led to paradigm shifts in a number of fields, from medical image analysis to autonomous systems. These advances, however, have resulted in digital neural networks with large computational requirements,…

The demand for high-speed, low-latency, and energy-efficient object detection in autonomous systems -- such as advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS), unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and Industry 4.0 robotics -- has exposed the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Daniel Gutierrez , Ruben Martinez , Leyre Arnedo , Antonio Cuesta , Soukaina El Hamry

An optical neural network is proposed and demonstrated with programmable matrix transformation and nonlinear activation function of photodetection (square-law detection). Based on discrete phase-coherent spatial modes, the dimensionality of…

Optics · Physics 2021-08-20 Shikang Li , Baohua Ni , Xue Feng , Kaiyu Cui , Fang Liu , Wei Zhang , Yidong Huang

Photonic computing is a computing paradigm which have great potential to overcome the energy bottlenecks of electronic von Neumann architecture. Throughput and power consumption are fundamental limitations of…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Saurabh Ranjan , Sonika Thakral , Amit Sehgal

Optics and photonics has recently captured interest as a platform to accelerate linear matrix processing, that has been deemed as a bottleneck in traditional digital electronic architectures. In this paper, we propose an all-photonic…

Photonic technologies offer great prospects for novel ultrafast, energy-efficient and hardware-friendly neuromorphic (brain-like) computing platforms. Moreover, neuromorphic photonic approaches based upon ubiquitous, technology-mature and…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Dafydd Owen-Newns , Joshua Robertson , Matej Hejda , Antonio Hurtado

The rapid growth of deep neural networks (DNNs) has exposed fundamental limitations in electronic accelerators, where data movement dominates energy consumption, commonly referred to as the memory wall. Photonic accelerators offer a…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Belal Jahannia , Abdolah Amirany , Hamed Dalir

The number of parameters in deep neural networks (DNNs) is scaling at about 5$\times$ the rate of Moore's Law. To sustain this growth, photonic computing is a promising avenue, as it enables higher throughput in dominant general…

Neural networks have enabled applications in artificial intelligence through machine learning, and neuromorphic computing. Software implementations of neural networks on conventional computers that have separate memory and processor (and…

With the proliferation of ultra-high-speed mobile networks and internet-connected devices, along with the rise of artificial intelligence, the world is generating exponentially increasing amounts of data - data that needs to be processed in…

This paper proposes a new hardware accelerator for sparse convolutional neural networks (CNNs) by building a hardware unit to perform the Image to Column (IM2COL) transformation of the input feature map coupled with a systolic array-based…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Mohammadreza Soltaniyeh , Richard P. Martin , Santosh Nagarakatte

The rapid growth in computing demands, particularly driven by artificial intelligence applications, has begun to exceed the capabilities of traditional electronic hardware. Optical computing offers a promising alternative due to its…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Shupeng Ning , Hanqing Zhu , Chenghao Feng , Jiaqi Gu , David Z. Pan , Ray T. Chen

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

We explore techniques to significantly improve the compute efficiency and performance of Deep Convolution Networks without impacting their accuracy. To improve the compute efficiency, we focus on achieving high accuracy with extremely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-10-04 Ganesh Venkatesh , Eriko Nurvitadhi , Debbie Marr

Compared to electronic accelerators, integrated silicon-photonic neural networks (SP-NNs) promise higher speed and energy efficiency for emerging artificial-intelligence applications. However, a hitherto overlooked problem in SP-NNs is that…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Amin Shafiee , Sanmitra Banerjee , Krishnendu Chakrabarty , Sudeep Pasricha , Mahdi Nikdast

Acceleration of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) on edge devices has recently achieved a remarkable performance in image classification and object detection applications. This paper proposes an efficient and scalable CNN-based SoC-FPGA…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Azzam Alhussain , Mingjie Lin