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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

Photonic reservoir computing (PRC) is a special hardware recurrent neural network, which is featured with fast training speed and low training cost. This work shows a wavelength-multiplexing PRC architecture, taking advantage of the…

Optics · Physics 2023-05-25 Rui-Qian Li , Yi-Wei Shen , Bao-De Lin , Jingyi Yu , Xuming He , Cheng Wang

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) can reduce energy consumption compared to conventional Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) when spiking activity is sparse and the neuron model is hardware-friendly. However, biologically faithful models are…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Pascal Harmeling , Florent De Geeter , Guillaume Drion

Edge devices equipped with computer vision must deal with vast amounts of sensory data with limited computing resources. Hence, researchers have been exploring different energy-efficient solutions such as near-sensor processing, in-sensor…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-24 Md Abdullah-Al Kaiser , Gourav Datta , Zixu Wang , Ajey P. Jacob , Peter A. Beerel , Akhilesh R. Jaiswal

The threads of photonics are eagerly awaited to redefine the future of neuromorphic data processing, especially as the computing-intensive artificial intelligence models become an unavoidable part of our everyday lives. Still, there is much…

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are posited as a computationally efficient and biologically plausible alternative to conventional neural architectures, with their core computational framework primarily using the leaky integrate-and-fire…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Malyaban Bal , Abhronil Sengupta

Spiking neural networks excel at event-driven sensing. Yet, maintaining task-relevant context over long timescales both algorithmically and in hardware, while respecting both tight energy and memory budgets, remains a core challenge in the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Pengfei Sun , Zhe Su , Jascha Achterberg , Giacomo Indiveri , Dan F. M. Goodman , Danyal Akarca

Artificial neural networks (ANNs) can help camera-based remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) in measuring cardiac activity and physiological signals from facial videos, such as pulse wave, heart rate and respiration rate with better accuracy.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Mingxuan Liu , Jiankai Tang , Yongli Chen , Haoxiang Li , Jiahao Qi , Siwei Li , Kegang Wang , Jie Gan , Yuntao Wang , Hong Chen

Photonic signal processing is essential in the optical communication and optical computing. Numerous photonic signal processors have been proposed, but most of them exhibit limited reconfigurability and automaticity. A feature of fully…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-08 Hailong Zhou , Yuhe Zhao , Xu Wang , Dingshan Gao , Jianji Dong , Xinliang Zhang

The emerging field of neuromorphic computing for edge control applications poses the need to quantitatively estimate and limit the number of spiking neurons, to reduce network complexity and optimize the number of neurons per core and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Shreyan Banerjee , Luna Gava , Aasifa Rounak , Vikram Pakrashi

Today's unrelenting increase in demand for information processing creates the need for novel computing concepts. Reservoir computing is such a concept that lends itself particularly well to photonic hardware implementations. Over recent…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-12-28 Akram Akrout , Arno Bouwens , François Duport , Quentin Vinckier , Marc Haelterman , Serge Massar

Emulating spiking neural networks on analog neuromorphic hardware offers several advantages over simulating them on conventional computers, particularly in terms of speed and energy consumption. However, this usually comes at the cost of…

Reservoir computing, renowned for its low training cost, has emerged as a promising lightweight paradigm for efficient spatiotemporal processing,it remains challenging to realize deep photonic reservoir computing (DPRC) systems, due to the…

Neurons in the brain communicate with each other through discrete action spikes as opposed to continuous signal transmission in artificial neural networks. Therefore, the traditional techniques for optimization of parameters in neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Sneha Aenugu

Photonic computing promises energy-efficient acceleration for optimization and learning, yet discrete combinatorial search and continuous function approximation have largely required distinct devices and control stacks. Here we unify…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-03 Nikita Stroev , Natalia G. Berloff

Machine learning applications that are implemented with spike-based computation model, e.g., Spiking Neural Network (SNN), have a great potential to lower the energy consumption when they are executed on a neuromorphic hardware. However,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Shihao Song , Adarsha Balaji , Anup Das , Nagarajan Kandasamy , James Shackleford

Neuromorphic computing and spiking neural networks (SNN) mimic the behavior of biological systems and have drawn interest for their potential to perform cognitive tasks with high energy efficiency. However, some factors such as temporal…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Haowen Fang , Brady Taylor , Ziru Li , Zaidao Mei , Hai Li , Qinru Qiu

In this work, we experimentally validate the dual use of a reconfigurable photonic integrated mesh as a neuromorphic accelerator, targeting signal equalization, and as a physical unclonable function offering authentication at the hardware…

Deep learning has driven significant technological advancements, but its high energy consumption limits its use on battery-operated edge devices. Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer promising reductions in inference-time energy…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Zhanglu Yan , Zhenyu Bai , Tulika Mitra , Weng-Fai Wong

Recent success in deep neural networks has generated strong interest in hardware accelerators to improve speed and energy consumption. This paper presents a new type of photonic accelerator based on coherent detection that is scalable to…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Ryan Hamerly , Liane Bernstein , Alexander Sludds , Marin Soljačić , Dirk Englund