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Ultra-thin multimode optical fiber imaging promises next-generation medical endoscopes reaching high image resolution for deep tissues. However, current technology suffers from severe optical distortion, as the fiber's calibration is…

Optics · Physics 2023-10-04 Yijie Zheng , George S. D. Gordon

Complex dynamics of silicon microring resonators loaded by delayed feedback elements enable high-speed photonic reservoir computing. Implementing feedback is especially challenging when the required delay should match the time scales of…

Optical interconnects are becoming a major bottleneck in scaling up future GPU racks and network switches within data centers. Although 200 Gb/s optical transceivers using PAM-4 modulation have been demonstrated, achieving higher data rates…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-27 Marziyeh Rezaei , Dan Sturm , Pengyu Zeng , Sajjad Moazeni

We introduce an electro-optic hardware platform for nonlinear activation functions in optical neural networks. The optical-to-optical nonlinearity operates by converting a small portion of the input optical signal into an analog electric…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-09 Ian A. D. Williamson , Tyler W. Hughes , Momchil Minkov , Ben Bartlett , Sunil Pai , Shanhui Fan

A low-complexity model for signal quality prediction in a nonlinear fiber-optical network is developed. The model, which builds on the Gaussian noise model, takes into account the signal degradation caused by a combination of chromatic…

Optics · Physics 2015-01-07 Pontus Johannisson , Erik Agrell

Nonlinear signal distortions are one of the primary factors limiting the capacity and reach of optical transmission systems. Currently, several approaches exist for compensating nonlinear distortions, but for practical implementation,…

Optics · Physics 2024-10-01 Alexey Redyuk , Evgeny Shevelev , Vitaly Danilko , Mikhail Fedoruk

Hashing retrieval is a pivotal technology for large-scale similarity search, widely applied in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) for large language models (LLMs), massive image repositories, and bioinformatics sequence matching. However,…

We describe an all-fiber nonlinear interferometer based on four-wave mixing in highly nonlinear fiber. Our configuration realizes phase-sensitive interference with 97% peak visibility and >90% visibility over a broad 554 GHz optical band.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-08-28 Joseph M. Lukens , Raphael C. Pooser , Nicholas A. Peters

Nonlinear computation is essential for a wide range of information processing tasks, yet implementing nonlinear functions using optical systems remains a challenge due to the weak and power-intensive nature of optical nonlinearities.…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-10 Md Sadman Sakib Rahman , Yuhang Li , Xilin Yang , Shiqi Chen , Aydogan Ozcan

Nowadays, Information Photonics is extensively studied and sees applications in many fields. The interest in this breakthrough technology is mainly stimulated by the possibility of achieving real-time data processing for high-bandwidth…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Emiliano Staffoli , Davide Bazzanella , Stefano Biasi , Giovanni Donati , Mattia Mancinelli , Paolo Bettotti , Lorenzo Pavesi

In long-distance fiber optic transmission, the optic fiber link and erbium-doped fiber amplifiers can introduce excessive noise, which reduces the optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR). The narrow-band optical filters can be used to…

Optics · Physics 2024-08-05 Mingwen Zhu , Shangsu Ding , Zhixue Li , Song Yu , Jianming Shang , Bin Luo

The nonlinear response of an optical microresonator is used in a time multiplexed reservoir computing neural network. Within a virtual node approach combined with an offline training through ridge regression, we solved linear and nonlinear…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Davide Bazzanella , Stefano Biasi , Mattia Mancinelli , Lorenzo Pavesi

We numerically demonstrate an all-optical nonlinearity pre-compensation module for state-of-the-art long-reach Raman-amplified unrepeatered links. The compensator design is optimized in terms of propagation symmetry to maximize the…

Nonlinear amplification is a powerful technique for generating ultrashort laser pulses with high peak power in fiber systems. However, the diversity of nonlinear amplification approaches and their inherent complexities present significant…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-29 Wenchao Wang , Yi-Hao Chen , Frank Wise

The distribution of ultra-narrow linewidth laser radiation is an integral part of many challenging metrological applications. Changes in the optical pathlength induced by environmental disturbances compromise the stability and accuracy of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-07-31 Benjamin Rauf , Maria Carmen Velez Lopez , Pierre Thoumany , Marco Pizzocaro , Davide Calonico

The efficacy of data decoding in contemporary ultrafast fiber transmission systems is greatly determined by the capabilities of the signal processing tools that are used. The received signal must not exceed a certain level of complexity,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-01 Apostolos Argyris , Julián Bueno , Ingo Fischer

In this work, we demonstrate the offline FPGA realization of both recurrent and feedforward neural network (NN)-based equalizers for nonlinearity compensation in coherent optical transmission systems. First, we present a realization…

The ever-increasing demand for processing data with larger machine learning models requires more efficient hardware solutions due to limitations such as power dissipation and scalability. Optics is a promising contender for providing lower…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Ilker Oguz , Jih-Liang Hsieh , Niyazi Ulas Dinc , Uğur Teğin , Mustafa Yildirim , Carlo Gigli , Christophe Moser , Demetri Psaltis

Quantum computers have the potential to help solve a range of physics and chemistry problems, but noise in quantum hardware currently limits our ability to obtain accurate results from the execution of quantum-simulation algorithms. Various…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-13 Eliott Rosenberg , Paul Ginsparg , Peter L. McMahon

The increasing complexity of neural networks and the energy consumption associated with training and inference create a need for alternative neuromorphic approaches, e.g. using optics. Current proposals and implementations rely on physical…

Optics · Physics 2023-08-31 Clara C. Wanjura , Florian Marquardt