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As the explosive growth of visual data increasingly strains the latency and energy limits of conventional electronic computing, optical analog computing has re-emerged as a disruptive paradigm for zero-power, speed-of-light information…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-21 Tingting Liu , Jumin Qiu , Xintong Shi , Qiegen Liu , Shuyuan Xiao

Edge computing has emerged as a paradigm to bring low-latency and bandwidth-intensive applications close to end-users. However, edge computing platforms still face challenges related to resource constraints, connectivity, and security. We…

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The development of optical nanofibers (ONF) and the study and control of their optical properties when coupling atoms to their electromagnetic modes has opened new possibilities for their use in quantum optics and quantum information…

Fiber-optic transmission systems are leveraged not only as high-speed communication channels but also as nonlinear kernel functions for machine learning computations, enabling the seamless integration of computational intelligence and…

Optics · Physics 2025-03-05 Jiahao Zhang , Lu Zhang , Xiaodan Pang , Oskars Ozolins , Qun Zhang , Xianbin Yu

In light of recent achievements in optical computing and machine learning, we consider the conditions under which all-optical computing may surpass electronic and optoelectronic computing in terms of energy efficiency and scalability. When…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Michał Matuszewski , Adam Prystupiuk , Andrzej Opala

Future communication systems are faced with increased demand for high capacity, dynamic bandwidth, reliability and heterogeneous traffic. To meet these requirements, networks have become more complex and thus require new design methods and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Dativa K. Tizikara , Jonathan Serugunda , Andrew Katumba

Optical computing offers ultrafast, energy-efficient alternatives to conventional digital processors, yet most implementations remain confined to single-channel processing, severely underutilizing light's information capacity. Here we…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-13 Fatma Nur Kılınç , Uğur Teğin

A cascaded phase-only mask architecture (or an optical diffractive neural network) can be employed for different optical information processing tasks such as pattern recognition, orbital angular momentum (OAM) mode conversion, image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Yang Gao , Shuming Jiao , Juncheng Fang , Ting Lei , Zhenwei Xie , Xiaocong Yuan

The rapid growth of AI and accelerator-driven workloads is forcing a fundamental rethinking of optical interconnect architectures in datacenters. Co-packaged optics and three-dimensional photonic integration have emerged as promising…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-24 Yasha Yi , Danny Wilkerson

Software-defined networking is finding its way into optical networks. Here, it promises a simplification and unification of network management for optical networks allowing automation of operational tasks despite the highly diverse and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-02-07 Thomas Szyrkowiec , Achim Autenrieth , Wolfgang Kellerer

Optical wireless communication (OWC) is a promising technology anticipated to play a key role in the next-generation network of networks, especially as a complementary technology to traditional radio frequency communications, for enhancing…

To design and construct hardware for general intelligence, we must consider principles of both neuroscience and very-large-scale integration. For large neural systems capable of general intelligence, the attributes of photonics for…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Jeffrey M. Shainline

The rapid advancements in machine learning across numerous industries have amplified the demand for extensive matrix-vector multiplication operations, thereby challenging the capacities of traditional von Neumann computing architectures. To…

Artificial intelligence (AI) is an extensive scientific discipline which enables computer systems to solve problems by emulating complex biological processes such as learning, reasoning and self-correction. This paper presents a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Javier Mata , Ignacio de Miguel , Ramó n J. Durá n , Noemí Merayo , Sandeep Kumar Singh , Admela Jukan , Mohit Chamania

With the rapid development of Internet and communication systems, both in services and technologies, communication networks have been suffering increasing complexity. It is imperative to improve intelligence in communication network, and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Rentao Gu , Zeyuan Yang , Yuefeng Ji

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 rapid evolution of communication technologies such as 5G and beyond, rely on optical networks to support the challenging and ambitious requirements that include both capacity and reliability. This chapter begins by giving an overview of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Carmen Mas-Machuca , Lena Wosinska , Marco Ruffini , Jiajia Chen

Compared with electrical neural networks, optical neural networks (ONNs) have the potentials to break the limit of the bandwidth and reduce the consumption of energy, and therefore draw much attention in recent years. By far, several types…

Optics · Physics 2024-02-02 Yifan Sun , Qian Li , Ling-Jun Kong , Xiangdong Zhang

Smart optical networks are the next evolution of programmable networking and programmable automation of optical networks, with human-in-the-loop network control and management. The paper discusses this evolution and the role of Artificial…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-07-31 Admela Jukan , Mohit Chamania

Place recognition is one of the hot research fields in automation technology and is still an open issue, Camera and Lidar are two mainstream sensors used in this task, Camera-based methods are easily affected by illumination and season…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Yuheng Lu , Fan Yang , Fangping Chen , Don Xie