The physics of optical computing

PL McMahon - Nature Reviews Physics, 2023 - nature.com
There has been a resurgence of interest in optical computing since the early 2010s, both in
academia and in industry, with much of the excitement centred around special-purpose …

Experimentally realized in situ backpropagation for deep learning in photonic neural networks

S Pai, Z Sun, TW Hughes, T Park, B Bartlett… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Integrated photonic neural networks provide a promising platform for energy-efficient, high-
throughput machine learning with extensive scientific and commercial applications. Photonic …

Integrated photonic neuromorphic computing: opportunities and challenges

N Farmakidis, B Dong, H Bhaskaran - Nature Reviews Electrical …, 2024 - nature.com
Using photons in lieu of electrons to process information has been an exciting technological
prospect for decades. Optical computing is gaining renewed enthusiasm, owing to the …

Light-in-the-loop: using a photonics co-processor for scalable training of neural networks

J Launay, I Poli, K Müller, I Carron, L Daudet… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
As neural networks grow larger and more complex and data-hungry, training costs are
skyrocketing. Especially when lifelong learning is necessary, such as in recommender …

Higher-dimensional processing using a photonic tensor core with continuous-time data

B Dong, S Aggarwal, W Zhou, UE Ali, N Farmakidis… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
New developments in hardware-based 'accelerators' range from electronic tensor cores and
memristor-based arrays to photonic implementations. The goal of these approaches is to …

Photonic probabilistic machine learning using quantum vacuum noise

S Choi, Y Salamin, C Roques-Carmes… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Probabilistic machine learning utilizes controllable sources of randomness to encode
uncertainty and enable statistical modeling. Harnessing the pure randomness of quantum …

Photonic reservoir computing

D Brunner, MC Soriano, G Van der Sande - De Gruyter, 2019 - degruyter.com
This book is devoted to a comprehensive compilation of the first hardware platforms
employed for photonic reservoir computing. Reservoir computing is a machine learning …

Training of photonic neural networks through in situ backpropagation and gradient measurement

TW Hughes, M Minkov, Y Shi, S Fan - Optica, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Recently, integrated optics has gained interest as a hardware platform for implementing
machine learning algorithms. Of particular interest are artificial neural networks, since matrix …

Photonic neural networks

D Woods, TJ Naughton - Nature Physics, 2012 - nature.com
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Embodiment of learning in electro-optical signal processors

M Hermans, P Antonik, M Haelterman, S Massar - Physical review letters, 2016 - APS
Delay-coupled electro-optical systems have received much attention for their dynamical
properties and their potential use in signal processing. In particular, it has recently been …