Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) with rapid prototyping and reprogramming capabilities
promise revolutionary impacts on a plethora of photonic technologies. We report direct-write …

Inspired by the great success of fiber optics in ultrafast data transmission, photonic
computing is being extensively studied as an alternative to replace or hybridize electronic …

Programmable photonics have the potential to completely transform a range of emerging
applications, including optical computing, optical signal processing, light detecting and …

Driven by the rapid rise of silicon photonics, optical signaling is moving from the realm of
long-distance communications to chip-to-chip, and even on-chip domains. If on-chip …

Silicon photonics (SiPh) technology has facilitated the deployment of integrated photonics
across different application domains, from ultra-fast communication in Datacom applications …

An optical equivalent of the field-programmable gate array (FPGA) is of great interest to
large-scale photonic integrated circuits. Previous programmable photonic devices relying on …

Phase-change materials integrated into nanophotonic circuits provide a flexible way to
realize tunable optical components. Relying on the enormous refractive-index contrast …

Electronically reprogrammable photonic circuits based on phase-change chalcogenides
present an avenue to resolve the von-Neumann bottleneck; however, implementation of …

Reconfigurability of photonic integrated circuits (PICs) has become increasingly important
due to the growing demands for electronic–photonic systems on a chip driven by emerging …

Neuromorphic algorithms achieve remarkable performance milestones in tasks where
humans have traditionally excelled. The breadth of data generated by these paradigms is …