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The escalating data volume and complexity resulting from the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence (AI), internet of things (IoT) and 5G/6G mobile networks is creating an urgent need for energy-efficient, scalable computing hardware.…

Tendon-Driven Continuum Robots (TDCRs) have the potential to be used in minimally invasive surgery and industrial inspection, where the robot must enter narrow and confined spaces. We propose a Model Predictive Control (MPC) approach to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Maximillian Hachen , Chengnan Shentu , Sven Lilge , Jessica Burgner-Kahrs

Matrix multiplication is a fundamental kernel in large-scale artificial intelligence and scientific computing, but its performance on conventional electronic accelerators is increasingly constrained by memory bandwidth and energy…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Hailong Gong , Haibo Zhang , Amanda S. Barnard , Mahbub Hassan , Matt Woolley , Rajkumar Buyya

Controlling the flow of light within complex and dynamic environments is essential for a wide range of applications, from deep-tissue imaging and optogenetics to precision phototherapy. Typically, such light flows are controlled using…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-03 Seung Yeol Lee , Yujie Luo , Ognjen Ilic

The integration of computing with memory is essential for distributed, massively parallel, and adaptive architectures such as neural networks in artificial intelligence (AI). Accelerating AI can be achieved through photonic computing, but…

Photonic integrated circuits provide a compact platform for ultrafast and energy-efficient matrix-vector multiplications (MVMs) in the optical domain. Recently, schemes based on time-division multiplexing (TDM) have been proposed as…

Photonic computing promises ultrafast and energy-efficient artificial intelligence. However, existing photonic neural networks (PNNs) remain functionally shallow and difficult to scale. Here we establish a theory-guided framework showing…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-25 Yuxin Sun , Chun Gao , Jin Xie , Pan Wang , Zejie Yu , Yiwei Xie , Huan Li , Daoxin Dai

Printed electronics have gained significant traction in recent years, presenting a viable path to integrating computing into everyday items, from disposable products to low-cost healthcare. However, the adoption of computing in these…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Panagiotis Chaidos , Giorgos Armeniakos , Sotirios Xydis , Dimitrios Soudris

The Artificial Intelligence models pose serious challenges in intensive computing and high-bandwidth communication for conventional electronic circuit-based computing clusters. Silicon photonic technologies, owing to their high speed, low…

Controlling topological phases of light has allowed experimental observations of abundant topological phenomena and development of robust photonic devices. The prospect of more sophisticated controls with topological photonic devices for…

Photonic integrated circuits (PIC) currently rely on application-specific designs that are geared towards a particular functionality. Development of such application-specific PIC requires considerable effort and often involves several…

Photonics-based in-memory computing systems have demonstrated a significant speedup over traditional transistor-based systems because of their ultra-fast operating frequencies and high data bandwidths. Photonic static random access memory…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Sasindu Wijeratne , Sugeet Sunder , Md Abdullah-Al Kaiser , Akhilesh Jaiswal , Clynn Mathew , Ajey P. Jacob , Viktor Prasanna

We present a highly scalable Monte Carlo (MC) three-dimensional photon transport simulation platform designed for heterogeneous computing systems. Through the development of a massively parallel MC algorithm using the Open Computing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Leiming Yu , Fanny Nina-Paravecino , David Kaeli , Qianqian Fang

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…

This work presents a cognitive radar (CR) framework to enhance remote sensing performance, specifically focusing on tracking multiple targets under unknown disturbances using massive multiple-input multiple-output (MMIMO) systems. Since…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-15 Imad Bouhou , Stefano Fortunati , Leila Gharsalli , Alexandre Renaux

The rise of artificial intelligence has triggered exponential growth in data volume, demanding rapid and efficient processing. High-speed, energy-efficient, and parallel-scalable computing hardware is thus increasingly critical. We…

We study an ultra-compact plasmonic modulator that can be applied in photonic integrated circuits. The modulator is a metal-insulator-metal waveguide with an additional ultra-thin layer of indium tin oxide (ITO). Bias is applied to the…

Optics · Physics 2013-08-15 Viktoriia E. Babicheva , Andrei V. Lavrinenko

Neuromorphic photonics promises sub-nanosecond latency, ultrawide bandwidth, and high parallelism, but practical scalability is constrained by fabrication tolerances, spectral alignment, and tuning energy. Here, we present a large-scale,…

Integrated photonics computing has emerged as a promising approach to overcome the limitations of electronic processors in the post-Moore era, capitalizing on the superiority of photonic systems. However, present integrated photonics…

Optics · Physics 2023-08-15 Yuepeng Wu , Hongxiang Guo , Bowen Zhang , Jifang Qiu , Zhisheng Yang , Jian Wu

(Context) Monte Carlo radiative transfer (MCRT) is a widely used technique to model the interaction between radiation and a medium, and plays an important role in astrophysical modelling and when comparing those models with observations.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-16 Bert Vandenbroucke , Peter Camps