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The subset sum problem is a typical NP-complete problem that is hard to solve efficiently in time due to the intrinsic superpolynomial-scaling property. Increasing the problem size results in a vast amount of time consuming in…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Xiao-Yun Xu , Xuan-Lun Huang , Zhan-Ming Li , Jun Gao , Zhi-Qiang Jiao , Yao Wang , Ruo-Jing Ren , H. P. Zhang , Xian-Min Jin

The electronic chip industry embodies the height of technological sophistication and economics of scale. Fabricating inexpensive photonic components by leveraging this mighty manufacturing infrastructure has fueled intense interest in…

Optics · Physics 2008-09-12 Bahram Jalali

The integration of computing with memory is essential for distributed, massively parallel, and adaptive architectures such as neural networks in artificial intelligence (AI). Accelerating AI can be achieved through photonic computing, but…

Photonic integrated circuits have been extensively explored for optical processing with the aim of breaking the speed bottleneck of digital electronics. However, the input/output (IO) bottleneck remains one of the key barriers. Here we…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Minjia Chen , Yizhi Wang , Chunhui Yao , Adrian Wonfor , Shuai Yang , Richard Penty , Qixiang Cheng

The interaction of light with subwavelength metallic nano-structures is at the heart of different current scientific hot topics, namely plasmonics, metamaterials and nanoantennas. Research in these disciplines during the last decade has…

Photonic computing has emerged as a promising solution for accelerating computation-intensive artificial intelligence (AI) workloads. However, limited reconfigurability, high electrical-optical conversion cost, and thermal sensitivity limit…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Ziang Yin , Nicholas Gangi , Meng Zhang , Jeff Zhang , Rena Huang , Jiaqi Gu

Integrating artificial intelligence (AI) techniques such as machine learning and deep learning into freeform optics design has significantly enhanced design efficiency, expanded the design space, and led to innovative solutions. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Lei Feng , Jingxing Liao , Jingna Yang

Heterogeneous hardware and dynamic workloads worsen long-standing OS bottlenecks in scalability, adaptability, and manageability. At the same time, advances in machine learning (ML), large language models (LLMs), and agent-based methods…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Yifan Zhang , Xinkui Zhao , Ziying Li , Guanjie Cheng , Jianwei Yin , Lufei Zhang , Zuoning Chen

Computational meta-imagers synergize metamaterial hardware with advanced signal processing approaches such as compressed sensing. Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are gradually reshaping the landscape of meta-imaging. Most…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-03-04 Chloé Saigre-Tardif , Rashid Faqiri , Hanting Zhao , Lianlin Li , Philipp del Hougne

The scaling up of quantum hardware is the fundamental challenge ahead in order to realize the disruptive potential of quantum technology in information science. Among the plethora of hardware platforms, photonics stands out by offering a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-22 Ravitej Uppu , Leonardo Midolo , Xiaoyan Zhou , Jacques Carolan , Peter Lodahl

Nonlinear metasurfaces offer a new paradigm to realize optical nonlinear devices with new and unparalleled behavior compared to nonlinear crystals, due to the interplay between photonic resonances and materials properties. The complicated…

As we march towards the age of ubiquitous intelligence, we note that AI and intelligence are progressively moving from the cloud to the edge. The success of Edge-AI is pivoted on innovative circuits and hardware that can enable inference…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Zishen Wan , Ashwin Sanjay Lele , Arijit Raychowdhury

The growing computational demands of artificial intelligence (AI) are challenging conventional electronics, making photonic computing a promising alternative. However, existing photonic architectures face fundamental scalability and…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Meng Zhang , Ziang Yin , Nicholas Gangi , Alexander Chen , Brett Bamfo , Tianle Xu , Jiaqi Gu , Zhaoran Rena Huang

The data-embedding process is one of the bottlenecks of quantum machine learning, potentially negating any quantum speedups. In light of this, more effective data-encoding strategies are necessary. We propose a photonic-based bosonic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-24 Beng Yee Gan , Daniel Leykam , Dimitris G. Angelakis

While Moore's law has driven exponential computing power expectations, its nearing end calls for new avenues for improving the overall system performance. One of these avenues is the exploration of alternative brain-inspired computing…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Charlotte Frenkel , David Bol , Giacomo Indiveri

Over the past few years, silicon photonics-based computing has emerged as a promising alternative to CMOS-based computing for Deep Neural Networks (DNN). Unfortunately, the non-linear operations and the high-precision requirements of DNNs…

AI/ML for data centres and data centres for AI/ML are defining new trends in cloud computing. Disaggregated heterogeneous reconfigurable computing systems realized by photonic interconnects and photonic switching expect greatly enhanced…

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The goal of integrated quantum photonics is to combine components for the generation, manipulation, and detection of non-classical light in a phase stable and efficient platform. Solid-state quantum emitters have recently reached…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-04-07 Je-Hyung Kim , Shahriar Aghaeimeibodi , Jacques Carolan , Dirk Englund , Edo Waks

Machine learning has long since become a keystone technology, accelerating science and applications in a broad range of domains. Consequently, the notion of applying learning methods to a particular problem set has become an established and…

Collocated data processing and storage are the norm in biological systems. Indeed, the von Neumann computing architecture, that physically and temporally separates processing and memory, was born more of pragmatism based on available…