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 …

Integrated optical memristors

N Youngblood, CA Ríos Ocampo, WHP Pernice… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Memristors in electronics have shown the potential for a range of applications, ranging from
circuit elements to neuromorphic computing. In recent years, the ability to vary the …

Non-volatile electrically programmable integrated photonics with a 5-bit operation

R Chen, Z Fang, C Perez, F Miller, K Kumari… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Scalable programmable photonic integrated circuits (PICs) can potentially transform the
current state of classical and quantum optical information processing. However, traditional …

Nonvolatile Multilevel Switching of Silicon Photonic Devices with In2O3/GST Segmented Structures

C Zhang, M Wei, J Zheng, S Liu, H Cao… - Advanced Optical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Reconfigurable silicon photonic devices are widely used in numerous emerging fields such
as optical interconnects, photonic neural networks, quantum computing, and microwave …

Reversible Thermally Driven Phase Change of Layered In2Se3 for Integrated Photonics

J Wu, Y Ye, J Jian, X Yao, J Li, B Tang, H Ma, M Wei… - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Two-dimensional In2Se3, an unconventional phase-change material, has drawn
considerable attention for polymorphic phase transitions and electronic device applications …

Exploring Trends and Opportunities in Quantum‐Enhanced Advanced Photonic Illumination Technologies

BA Taha, AJ Addie, AJ Haider… - Advanced Quantum …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The development of quantum‐enabled photonic technologies has opened new avenues for
advanced illumination across diverse fields, including sensing, computing, materials, and …

[HTML][HTML] Non-volatile materials for programmable photonics

Z Fang, R Chen, B Tossoun, S Cheung, D Liang… - APL Materials, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Programmable photonics play a crucial role in many emerging applications, from optical
accelerators for machine learning to quantum information technologies. Conventionally …

An Open‐Source Multifunctional Testing Platform for Optical Phase Change Materials

CC Popescu, KP Dao, L Ranno, B Mills… - Small …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Owing to their unique tunable optical properties, chalcogenide phase change materials are
increasingly being investigated for optics and photonics applications. However, in situ …

A survey on optical phase-change memory: The promise and challenges

A Shafiee, S Pasricha, M Nikdast - IEEE Access, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Silicon photonics (SiPh) technology has facilitated the deployment of integrated photonics
across different application domains, from ultra-fast communication in Datacom applications …

Nonvolatile Phase-Only Transmissive Spatial Light Modulator with Electrical Addressability of Individual Pixels

Z Fang, R Chen, JE Fröch, QAA Tanguy, AI Khan… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Active metasurfaces with tunable subwavelength-scale nanoscatterers are promising
platforms for high-performance spatial light modulators (SLMs). Among the tuning methods …