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Non-von Neumann computational hardware, based on neuron-inspired, non-linear elements connected via linear, weighted synapses -- so-called neuromorphic systems -- is a viable computational substrate. Since neuromorphic systems have been…

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Photonic neuromorphic computing has emerged as a promising avenue toward building a low-latency and energy-efficient non-von-Neuman computing system. Photonic spiking neural network (PSNN) exploits brain-like spatiotemporal processing to…

Neural networks can very effectively perform multidimensional nonlinear classification. However, electronic networks suffer from significant bandwidth limitations due to carrier lifetimes and capacitive coupling. This project investigates…

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With its unique parallel processing capability, optical neural network has shown low-power consumption in image recognition and speech processing. At present, the manufacturing technology of programmable photonic chip is not mature, and the…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Qiuhao Wu , Jia Liu , Xiubao Sui , Liping Wang , Qian Chen

Optical information processing and computing can potentially offer enhanced performance, scalability and energy efficiency. However, achieving nonlinearity-a critical component of computation-remains challenging in the optical domain. Here…

The intrinsic complexity of nonlinear optical phenomena offers a fundamentally new resource to analog brain-inspired computing, with the potential to address the pressing energy requirements of artificial intelligence. We introduce and…

Programmable unitary photonic networks that interfere hundreds of modes are emerging as a key technology in energy-efficient sensing, machine learning, cryptography, and linear optical quantum computing applications. In this work, we…

Optics · Physics 2022-11-01 Sunil Pai , Olav Solgaard , Shanhui Fan , David A. B. Miller

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…

Neuromorphic (brain-inspired) photonics leverages photonic chips to accelerate artificial intelligence, offering high-speed and energy efficient solutions in RF communication, tensor processing, and data classification. However, the limited…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-16 Tristan Austin , Simon Bilodeau , Andrew Hayman , Nir Rotenberg , Bhavin Shastri

Photonic neuromorphic computing offers compelling advantages in power efficiency and parallel processing, but often falls short in realizing scalable nonlinearity and long-term memory. We overcome these limitations by employing silicon…

Collocated data processing and storage are the norm in biological systems. Indeed, the von Neumann computing architecture, that physically and temporally separates processing and memory, was born more of pragmatism based on available…

Optical neural networks are emerging as a powerful and versatile tool for processing optical signals directly in the optical domain with superior speed, integrability, and functionality. Their application to optical polarization enables…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-24 Alessandro Petrini , Claudio Conti , Davide Pierangeli

Artificial intelligence (AI) has rapidly evolved into a critical technology; however, electrical hardware struggles to keep pace with the exponential growth of AI models. Free space optical hardware provides alternative approaches for…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-07 Xue Dong , Kai Lion , Fei Xia , YoonSeok Baek , Ziao Wang , Niao He , Sylvain Gigan

Optical computing systems provide an alternate hardware model which appears to be aligned with the demands of neural network workloads. However, the challenge of implementing energy efficient nonlinearities in optics -- a key requirement…

Optics · Physics 2025-08-04 N. Richardson , C. Bosch , R. P. Adams

The integration of second-order optical nonlinearities into scalable photonic platforms remains a key challenge due to their large sensitivity to fabrication variations. Here, we present a scalable quadratic nonlinear platform that…

Deep networks are now able to achieve human-level performance on a broad spectrum of recognition tasks. Independently, neuromorphic computing has now demonstrated unprecedented energy-efficiency through a new chip architecture based on…

Topological photonics enables robust light manipulation with third-order optical nonlinearity, yet integrating second-order optical nonlinearity into a topological system faces fundamental challenges: frequency-dependent topological…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-30 Ruoyu Wang , Yiming Pan , Xiaoqin Shen

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,…

Application-specific optical processors have been considered disruptive technologies for modern computing that can fundamentally accelerate the development of artificial intelligence (AI) by offering substantially improved computing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-26 Tiankuang Zhou , Xing Lin , Jiamin Wu , Yitong Chen , Hao Xie , Yipeng Li , Jintao Fan , Huaqiang Wu , Lu Fang , Qionghai Dai

Photonic neural networks benefit from both the high channel capacity- and the wave nature of light acting as an effective weighting mechanism through linear optics. The neuron's activation function, however, requires nonlinearity which can…