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 …

Applications of optical microcombs

Y Sun, J Wu, M Tan, X Xu, Y Li, R Morandotti… - Advances in Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Optical microcombs represent a new paradigm for generating laser frequency combs based
on compact chip-scale devices, which have underpinned many modern technological …

Microcomb-based integrated photonic processing unit

B Bai, Q Yang, H Shu, L Chang, F Yang, B Shen… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The emergence of parallel convolution-operation technology has substantially powered the
complexity and functionality of optical neural networks (ONN) by harnessing the dimension …

Emerging opportunities and challenges for the future of reservoir computing

M Yan, C Huang, P Bienstman, P Tino, W Lin… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Reservoir computing originates in the early 2000s, the core idea being to utilize dynamical
systems as reservoirs (nonlinear generalizations of standard bases) to adaptively learn …

All-analog photoelectronic chip for high-speed vision tasks

Y Chen, M Nazhamaiti, H Xu, Y Meng, T Zhou, G Li… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Photonic computing enables faster and more energy-efficient processing of vision data,,,–.
However, experimental superiority of deployable systems remains a challenge because of …

Experimentally realized in situ backpropagation for deep learning in photonic neural networks

S Pai, Z Sun, TW Hughes, T Park, B Bartlett… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Integrated photonic neural networks provide a promising platform for energy-efficient, high-
throughput machine learning with extensive scientific and commercial applications. Photonic …

[HTML][HTML] Sagnac interference in integrated photonics

H Arianfard, S Juodkazis, DJ Moss, J Wu - Applied Physics Reviews, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
As a fundamental optical approach to interferometry, Sagnac interference has been widely
used for reflection manipulation, precision measurements, and spectral engineering in …

Prospects and applications of on-chip lasers

Z Zhou, X Ou, Y Fang, E Alkhazraji, R Xu, Y Wan… - elight, 2023 - Springer
Integrated silicon photonics has sparked a significant ramp-up of investment in both
academia and industry as a scalable, power-efficient, and eco-friendly solution. At the heart …

Graphene oxide for nonlinear integrated photonics

Y Zhang, J Wu, L Jia, Y Qu, Y Yang… - Laser & Photonics …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Integrated photonic devices operating via optical nonlinearities offer a powerful solution for
all‐optical information processing, yielding processing speeds that are well beyond that of …

A programmable diffractive deep neural network based on a digital-coding metasurface array

C Liu, Q Ma, ZJ Luo, QR Hong, Q **ao, HC Zhang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The development of artificial intelligence is typically focused on computer algorithms and
integrated circuits. Recently, all-optical diffractive deep neural networks have been created …