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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…

The physical implementation of artificial intelligence requires mapping computational processes onto the dynamic physical processes of the underlying computing platform. The photonic processors offer an intrinsically parallel and low energy…

Photonic neural networks offer a promising alternative to traditional electronic systems for machine learning accelerators due to their low latency and energy efficiency. However, the challenge of implementing the backpropagation algorithm…

The advancement of artificial intelligence demands flexible multimodal data processing with high throughput and energy efficiency. Photonic integrated circuits (PIC) has demonstrated promising potentials in terms of low latency and low…

Deeplearning algorithms are revolutionising many aspects of modern life. Typically, they are implemented in CMOS-based hardware with severely limited memory access times and inefficient data-routing. All-optical neural networks without any…

The scope of research in the domain of activation functions remains limited and centered around improving the ease of optimization or generalization quality of neural networks (NNs). However, to develop a deeper understanding of deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Mohit Goyal , Rajan Goyal , Brejesh Lall

Photonic reservoir computer (PRC) is a kind of real-time and adaptive recurrent neural network, where only weights in the readout layer require training. PRC is a promising tool to deal with the crucial issue of nonlinear equalization in…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-24 Rui-Qian Li , Yi-Wei Shen , Zekun Niu , Guozhi Xu , Jingyi Yu , Xuming He , Lilin Yi , Cheng Wang

Deep neural networks have been successfully used in diverse emerging domains to solve real world complex problems with may more deep learning(DL) architectures, being developed to date. To achieve these state-of-the-art performances, the DL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-09 Chigozie Nwankpa , Winifred Ijomah , Anthony Gachagan , Stephen Marshall

We show that programmable photonic circuit architectures composed of alternating mixing layers and active layers offer a high degree of flexibility. This alternating configuration enables the systematic tailoring of both the network's depth…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-30 Matthew Markowitz , Kevin Zelaya , Mohammad-Ali Miri

Low-noise lasers are of central importance in a wide variety of applications, including high spectral-efficiency coherent communication protocols, distributed fibre sensing, and long distance coherent LiDAR. In addition to low phase noise,…

The scope of this paper is to demonstrate a fully working and compact photonic Physical Unclonable Function (PUF) device capable of operating in real life scenarios as an authentication mechanism and random number generator. For this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-12 M. Akriotou , A. Fragkos , D. Syvridis

Rapidly growing demands for fast information processing have launched a race for creating compact and highly efficient optical devices that can reliably transmit signals without losses. Recently discovered topological phases of light…

Optics · Physics 2020-06-04 Daria Smirnova , Daniel Leykam , Yidong Chong , Yuri Kivshar

Activation in deep neural networks is fundamental to achieving non-linear mappings. Traditional studies mainly focus on finding fixed activations for a particular set of learning tasks or model architectures. The research on flexible…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Renlong Jie , Junbin Gao , Andrey Vasnev , Min-ngoc Tran

Following the explosive growth of global data, there is an ever-increasing demand for high-throughput optical fiber communication (OFC) systems to perform massive data transmission and processing. Existing OFC methods mainly rely on…

Optics · Physics 2022-03-09 Yitong Chen , Tiankuang Zhou , Jiamin Wu , Hui Qiao , Xing Lin , Lu Fang , Qionghai Dai

Thin-film periodically poled lithium niobate (TF-PPLN) devices have recently gained prominence for efficient wavelength conversion processes in both classical and quantum applications. However, the patterning and poling of TF-PPLN devices…

In this work, we present new experimental evidence of a nonclassical behavior of a multimode Fabry-Perot (FP) semiconductor laser by the measurements of intensity correlation functions. Because of the multimode quantum state occurrence,…

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Optical implementation of artificial neural networks has been attracting great attention due to its potential in parallel computation at speed of light. Although all-optical deep neural networks (AODNNs) with a few neurons have been…

Optics · Physics 2021-05-26 Ying Zuo , Zhao Yujun , You-Chiuan Chen , Shengwang Du , Junwei Liu

Neuromorphic photonic computing has emerged as a competitive computing paradigm to overcome the bottlenecks of the von-Neumann architecture. Linear weighting and nonlinear spiking activation are two fundamental functions of a photonic…

Arbitrary manipulation of light across multiple physical dimensions is essential for harnessing its parallelism in fundamental research and advanced applications, such as optical interconnects, computing, imaging, sensing, and quantum…

High-dimensional nonlinear dynamical systems including neural networks can be utilized as a computational resource for information processing. In this sense, nonlinear wave systems are good candidate for such a computational resource. Here,…

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