Computation at the speed of light: metamaterials for all-optical calculations and neural networks

T Badloe, S Lee, J Rho - Advanced Photonics, 2022 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The explosion in the amount of information that is being processed is prompting the need for
new computing systems beyond existing electronic computers. Photonic computing is …

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 …

Topologically crafted spatiotemporal vortices in acoustics

H Zhang, Y Sun, J Huang, B Wu, Z Yang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Vortices in fluids and gases have piqued the human interest for centuries. Development of
classical-wave physics and quantum mechanics highlighted wave vortices characterized by …

Generalized spatial differentiation from the spin hall effect of light and its application in image processing of edge detection

T Zhu, Y Lou, Y Zhou, J Zhang, J Huang, Y Li, H Luo… - Physical Review …, 2019 - APS
Optics naturally provides us with some powerful mathematical operations. Here, we
experimentally demonstrate that during reflection or refraction at a single optical planar …

Meta-optics for spatial optical analog computing

S Abdollahramezani, O Hemmatyar, A Adibi - Nanophotonics, 2020 - degruyter.com
Rapidly growing demands for high-performance computing, powerful data processing, and
big data necessitate the advent of novel optical devices to perform demanding computing …

Computing metasurfaces for all-optical image processing: a brief review

S He, R Wang, H Luo - Nanophotonics, 2022 - degruyter.com
Computing metasurfaces are two-dimensional artificial nanostructures capable of
performing mathematical operations on the input electromagnetic field, including its …

Topological analog signal processing

F Zangeneh-Nejad, R Fleury - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
Analog signal processors have attracted a tremendous amount of attention recently, as they
potentially offer much faster operation and lower power consumption than their digital …

Solving integral equations in free space with inverse-designed ultrathin optical metagratings

A Cordaro, B Edwards, V Nikkhah, A Alù… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
As standard microelectronic technology approaches fundamental limitations in speed and
power consumption, novel computing strategies are strongly needed. Analogue optical …

Spatiotemporal differentiators generating optical vortices with transverse orbital angular momentum and detecting sharp change of pulse envelope

J Huang, J Zhang, T Zhu, Z Ruan - Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
As a new degree of freedom for optical manipulation, recently, spatiotemporal optical
vortices (STOVs) carrying transverse orbital angular momentums have been experimentally …

Toward a universal metasurface for optical imaging, communication, and computation

P Thureja, R Sokhoyan, CU Hail, J Sisler, M Foley… - …, 2022 - degruyter.com
In recent years, active metasurfaces have emerged as a reconfigurable nanophotonic
platform for the manipulation of light. Here, application of an external stimulus to resonant …