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Analog photonic solutions offer unique opportunities to address complex computational tasks with unprecedented performance in terms of energy dissipation and speeds, overcoming current limitations of modern computing architectures based on…

In recent years, the development of nanophotonic devices has presented a revolutionary means to manipulate light at nanoscale. Recently, artificial neural networks (ANNs) have displayed powerful ability in the inverse design of nanophotonic…

Integration of complex photonic structures onto optical fiber facets enables powerful platforms with unprecedented optical functionalities. Conventional nanofabrication technologies, however, do not permit viable integration of complex…

In the dynamic landscape of Artificial Intelligence (AI), two notable phenomena are becoming predominant: the exponential growth of large AI model sizes and the explosion of massive amount of data. Meanwhile, scientific research such as…

Optics · Physics 2025-03-21 Renjie Li , Yuanhao Gong , Hai Huang , Yuze Zhou , Sixuan Mao , Zhijian Wei , Zhaoyu Zhang

Photonic computing, with potentials of high parallelism, low latency and high energy efficiency, have gained progressive interest at the forefront of neural network (NN) accelerators. However, most existing photonic computing accelerators…

Optics · Physics 2024-04-16 Ziyu Zhan , Hao Wang , Qiang Liu , Xing Fu

Photonic brain-inspired platforms are emerging as novel analog computing devices, enabling fast and energy-efficient operations for machine learning. These artificial neural networks generally require tailored optical elements, such as…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Davide Pierangeli , Giulia Marcucci , Claudio Conti

Photonic neural networks have significant potential for high-speed neural processing with low latency and ultralow energy consumption. However, the on-chip implementation of a large-scale neural network is still challenging owing to its low…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Satoshi Sunada , Atsushi Uchida

The ever-growing deep learning technologies are making revolutionary changes for modern life. However, conventional computing architectures are designed to process sequential and digital programs, being extremely burdened with performing…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Yuyao Huang , Tingzhao Fu , Honghao Huang , Sigang Yang , Hongwei Chen

The optical neural network (ONN) is a promising hardware platform for next-generation neurocomputing due to its high parallelism, low latency, and low energy consumption. Previous ONN architectures are mainly designed for general matrix…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Chenghao Feng , Jiaqi Gu , Hanqing Zhu , Zhoufeng Ying , Zheng Zhao , David Z. Pan , Ray T. Chen

Neural networks find widespread use in scientific and technological applications, yet their implementations in conventional computers have encountered bottlenecks due to ever-expanding computational needs. Photonic neuromorphic hardware,…

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…

The future success of integrated circuits (IC) technology relies on the continuing miniaturization of the feature size, allowing more components per chip and higher speed. Extreme anisotropy opens new opportunities for spatial pattern…

Optics · Physics 2016-08-10 Jingbo Sun , Tianboyu Xu , Natalia M. Litchinitser

Emergent learning transforms a disordered optical medium into a photonic device capable of storage, recognition, and classification of arbitrary memory patterns. First, we show that the intensity at the output of a multiply scattering…

Ultrathin meta-optics offer unmatched, multifunctional control of light. Next-generation optical technologies, however, demand unprecedented performance. This will likely require design algorithms surpassing the capability of human…

Optics · Physics 2021-04-06 Shane Colburn , Arka Majumdar

Integrating conventional optics into compact nanostructured surfaces is the goal of flat optics. Despite the enormous progress of this technology, there are still critical challenges for real world applications due to a limited efficiency…

Today, machine learning tools, particularly artificial neural networks, have become crucial for diverse applications. However, current digital computing tools to train and deploy artificial neural networks often struggle with massive data…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Bora Çarpınlıoğlu , Uğur Teğin

Neuromorphic engineering has emerged as a promising avenue for developing brain-inspired computational systems. However, conventional electronic AI-based processors often encounter challenges related to processing speed and thermal…

Optics · Physics 2025-01-03 Reyhane Ahmadi , Amirreza Ahmadnejad , Somayyeh Koohi

Optical computing systems deliver unrivalled processing speeds for scalar operations. Yet, integrated implementations have been constrained to low-dimensional tensor operations that fall short of the vector dimensions required for modern…

Software-implementation, via neural networks, of brain-inspired computing approaches underlie many important modern-day computational tasks, from image processing to speech recognition, artificial intelligence and deep learning…

Optics · Physics 2021-02-19 J. Feldmann , N. Youngblood , C. D. Wright , H. Bhaskaran , W. H. P. Pernice

Optical computing with integrated photonics brings a pivotal paradigm shift to data-intensive computing technologies. However, the scaling of on-chip photonic architectures using spatially distributed schemes faces the challenge imposed by…

Optics · Physics 2022-10-12 Han Zhao , Bingzhao Li , Huan Li , Mo Li