Photonics for artificial intelligence and neuromorphic computing

BJ Shastri, AN Tait, T Ferreira de Lima, WHP Pernice… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Research in photonic computing has flourished due to the proliferation of optoelectronic
components on photonic integration platforms. Photonic integrated circuits have enabled …

From scaling disparities to integrated parallelism: A decathlon for a decade

PJ Winzer, DT Neilson - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Based on a variety of long-term network traffic data from different geographies and
applications, in addition to long-term scaling trends of key information and communication …

A survey of silicon photonics for energy-efficient manycore computing

S Pasricha, M Nikdast - IEEE Design & Test, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A Survey of Silicon Photonics for Energy-Efficient Manycore Computing Page 1 60 2168-2356/20©2020
IEEE Copublished by the IEEE CEDA, IEEE CASS, IEEE SSCS, and TTTC IEEE Design&Test …

High-speed silicon photonics modulators

J Witzens - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The realization of gigahertz bandwidth modulators out of silicon-based technology in the
early 2000s marked a cornerstone of silicon photonics development. While modulation …

The emergence of silicon photonics as a flexible technology platform

X Chen, MM Milosevic, S Stanković… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present a brief history of silicon photonics from the early research papers in
the late 1980s and early 1990s, to the potentially revolutionary technology that exists today …

Ultra-high electro-optic activity demonstrated in a silicon-organic hybrid modulator

C Kieninger, Y Kutuvantavida, DL Elder, S Wolf… - Optica, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Efficient electro-optic (EO) modulators crucially rely on advanced materials that exhibit
strong electro-optic activity and that can be integrated into high-speed and efficient phase …

Silicon-organic hybrid (SOH) Mach-Zehnder modulators for 100 GBd PAM4 signaling with sub-1 dB phase-shifter loss

C Kieninger, C Füllner, H Zwickel, Y Kutuvantavida… - Optics express, 2020 - opg.optica.org
We report on compact and efficient silicon-organic hybrid (SOH) Mach-Zehnder modulators
(MZM) with low phase-shifter insertion loss of 0.7 dB. The 280 µm-long phase shifters …

Experimental parametric study of 128 Gb/s PAM-4 transmission system using a multi-electrode silicon photonic Mach Zehnder modulator

A Samani, D Patel, M Chagnon, E El-Fiky, R Li… - Optics express, 2017 - opg.optica.org
We present an experimental study and analysis of a travelling wave series push-pull silicon
photonic multi-electrode Mach-Zehnder modulator (ME-MZM) and compare its performance …

Albireo: Energy-efficient acceleration of convolutional neural networks via silicon photonics

K Shiflett, A Karanth, R Bunescu… - 2021 ACM/IEEE 48th …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the end of Dennard scaling, highly-parallel and specialized hardware accelerators
have been proposed to improve the throughput and energy-efficiency of deep neural …

Design of high-bandwidth, low-voltage and low-loss hybrid lithium niobate electro-optic modulators

PO Weigel, F Valdez, J Zhao, H Li… - Journal of physics …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The past decade has seen significant growth in the field of thin film lithium niobate electro-
optic modulators, which promise reduced voltage requirements and higher modulation …