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 …

Recent progress in silicon‐based photonic integrated circuits and emerging applications

Z Xiao, W Liu, S Xu, J Zhou, Z Ren… - Advanced Optical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, with the further ministration of the semiconductor device in integrated
circuits, power consumption and data transmission bandwidth have become insurmountable …

Image sensing with multilayer nonlinear optical neural networks

T Wang, MM Sohoni, LG Wright, MM Stein, SY Ma… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Optical imaging is commonly used for both scientific and technological applications across
industry and academia. In image sensing, a measurement, such as of an object's position or …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Deep learning with coherent VCSEL neural networks

Z Chen, A Sludds, R Davis III, I Christen, L Bernstein… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Deep neural networks (DNNs) are reshaping the field of information processing. With the
exponential growth of these DNNs challenging existing computing hardware, optical neural …

Integrated electro-optic isolator on thin-film lithium niobate

M Yu, R Cheng, C Reimer, L He, K Luke, E Puma… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Optical isolators are indispensable components of almost any optical system and are used
to protect a laser from unwanted reflections for phase-stable coherent operation. The …

[HTML][HTML] Compact optical convolution processing unit based on multimode interference

X Meng, G Zhang, N Shi, G Li, J Azaña… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Convolutional neural networks are an important category of deep learning, currently facing
the limitations of electrical frequency and memory access time in massive data processing …

Dual‐mode conversion of photodetector and neuromorphic vision sensor via bias voltage regulation on a single device

S Feng, J Li, L Feng, Z Liu, J Wang, C Cui… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Simultaneous implementation of photodetector and neuromorphic vision sensor (NVS) on a
single device faces a great challenge, due to the inherent speed discrepancy in their …

Single chip photonic deep neural network with accelerated training

S Bandyopadhyay, A Sludds, S Krastanov… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
As deep neural networks (DNNs) revolutionize machine learning, energy consumption and
throughput are emerging as fundamental limitations of CMOS electronics. This has …

Lithography-free reconfigurable integrated photonic processor

T Wu, M Menarini, Z Gao, L Feng - Nature Photonics, 2023 - nature.com
Integrated photonics, because of its intrinsic high speed, large bandwidth and unlimited
parallelism, is critical in the drive to ease the increasing data traffic. Its technological enabler …