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 …

Plasmonic semiconductors: materials, tunability and applications

Y Guo, Z Xu, AG Curto, YJ Zeng… - Progress in Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
Semiconductor plasmonics has become a frontier for light manipulation beyond the
diffraction limit, offering a broader spectral range and higher flexibility of plasmon …

Ultra-low-energy programmable non-volatile silicon photonics based on phase-change materials with graphene heaters

Z Fang, R Chen, J Zheng, AI Khan, KM Neilson… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Silicon photonics is evolving from laboratory research to real-world applications with the
potential to transform many technologies, including optical neural networks and quantum …

Electrically driven reprogrammable phase-change metasurface reaching 80% efficiency

S Abdollahramezani, O Hemmatyar… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Phase-change materials (PCMs) offer a compelling platform for active metaoptics, owing to
their large index contrast and fast yet stable phase transition attributes. Despite recent …

Photonic machine learning with on-chip diffractive optics

T Fu, Y Zang, Y Huang, Z Du, H Huang, C Hu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Machine learning technologies have been extensively applied in high-performance
information-processing fields. However, the computation rate of existing hardware is …

Ultra-compact nonvolatile phase shifter based on electrically reprogrammable transparent phase change materials

C Ríos, Q Du, Y Zhang, CC Popescu, MY Shalaginov… - PhotoniX, 2022 - Springer
Optical phase shifters constitute the fundamental building blocks that enable programmable
photonic integrated circuits (PICs)—the cornerstone of on-chip classical and quantum …

A ferroelectric multilevel non-volatile photonic phase shifter

J Geler-Kremer, F Eltes, P Stark, D Stark, D Caimi… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
A novel class of programmable integrated photonic circuits has emerged over the past
years, strongly driven by approaches to tackle unsolved computing problems in the optical …

A photoelectric spiking neuron for visual depth perception

C Chen, Y He, H Mao, L Zhu, X Wang, Y Zhu… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The biological visual system encodes optical information into spikes and processes them by
the neural network, which enables the perception with high throughput of visual processing …

Non-volatile reconfigurable silicon photonics based on phase-change materials

Z Fang, R Chen, J Zheng… - IEEE Journal of Selected …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The traditional ways of tuning a silicon photonic network are mainly based on the thermo-
optic effect or the free carrier dispersion. The drawbacks of these methods are the volatile …

Wavelength-shift-free racetrack resonator hybrided with phase change material for photonic in-memory computing

H Zhu, Y Lu, L Cai - Optics Express, 2023 - opg.optica.org
The photonic in-memory computing architecture based on phase change materials (PCMs)
is increasingly attracting widespread attention due to its high computational efficiency and …