Optical computing: Status and perspectives

NL Kazanskiy, MA Butt, SN Khonina - Nanomaterials, 2022 - mdpi.com
For many years, optics has been employed in computing, although the major focus has been
and remains to be on connecting parts of computers, for communications, or more …

Computational complexity evaluation of neural network applications in signal processing

P Freire, S Srivallapanondh, A Napoli… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
In this paper, we provide a systematic approach for assessing and comparing the
computational complexity of neural network layers in digital signal processing. We provide …

Towards a high-density photonic tensor core enabled by intensity-modulated microrings and photonic wire bonding

E Luan, S Yu, M Salmani, MS Nezami, BJ Shastri… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
We propose a photonic processing unit for high-density analog computation using intensity-
modulation-based microring modulators (IM-MRMs). The output signal at the fixed …

Computational complexity optimization of neural network-based equalizers in digital signal processing: a comprehensive approach

P Freire, S Srivallapanondh, B Spinnler… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Experimental results based on offline processing reported at optical conferences
increasingly rely on neural network-based equalizers for accurate data recovery. However …

Integrated microwave photonics coherent processor for massive-MIMO systems in wireless communications

PMC Romero, JR Rausell-Campo… - IEEE Journal of …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Massive-MIMO systems can achieve high capacities and data rates by increasing the
number of operational antennas in the base station. As more antenna elements are …

Photonic parallel channel estimation of MIMO-OFDM wireless communication systems

X Zhao, S Xu, S Yi, S Hua, X Li, W Zou - Optics Express, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Channel estimation is a key technology in MIMO-OFDM wireless communication systems.
Increasingly extensive application scenarios and exponentially growing data volumes of …

Feature extraction from images using integrated photonic convolutional kernel

Y Huang, B Huang, C Cheng, H Zhang… - IEEE photonics …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optical neural networks are expected to solve the problems of computational efficiency and
energy consumption in neural networks. Herein, we experimentally implemented a 2× 2 …

Ordinary differential equation-based MIMO signal detection

A Nakai-Kasai, T Wadayama - IEEE Transactions on Signal …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The required signal processing rate in future wireless communication systems exceeds the
performance of the latest electronics-based processors. Introduction of analog optical …

Photonic dot-product engine for optical signal and information processing

E Luan, M Salmani, A Eshaghi - Journal of Physics: Photonics, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper, a novel 2× 2 Mach–Zehnder-interferometer (MZI)-based dot-product calculator
is proposed and analyzed in the silicon-on-insulator (SOI) platform. To calculate the dot …

Optical Computing: Key Problems, Achievements, and Perspectives

NL Kazanskiy, MA Butt, SN Khonina - Photonics Elements for …, 2024 - taylorfrancis.com
The topic of optical computing (OC) dates to the early 1960s, or perhaps before, when the
military became interested in utilizing the Fourier transform (FT) relationships essential in …