Scaling capacity of fiber-optic transmission systems via silicon photonics

W Shi, Y Tian, A Gervais - Nanophotonics, 2020 - degruyter.com
The tremendous growth of data traffic has spurred a rapid evolution of optical
communications for a higher data transmission capacity. Next-generation fiber-optic …

Scaling up silicon photonic-based accelerators: Challenges and opportunities

MA Al-Qadasi, L Chrostowski, BJ Shastri, S Shekhar - APL Photonics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Digital accelerators in the latest generation of complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor
processes support, multiply, and accumulate (MAC) operations at energy efficiencies …

Silicon microring synapses enable photonic deep learning beyond 9-bit precision

W Zhang, C Huang, HT Peng, S Bilodeau, A Jha… - Optica, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Deep neural networks (DNNs) consist of layers of neurons interconnected by synaptic
weights. A high bit-precision in weights is generally required to guarantee high accuracy in …

Integrated photonic tensor processing unit for a matrix multiply: a review

N Peserico, BJ Shastri, VJ Sorger - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2023 - opg.optica.org
The explosion of artificial intelligence and machine-learning algorithms, connected to the
exponential growth of the exchanged data, is driving a search for novel application-specific …

Silicon‐based integrated label‐free optofluidic biosensors: latest advances and roadmap

J Wang, MM Sanchez, Y Yin, R Herzer… - Advanced Materials …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
By virtue of the well‐developed micro‐and nanofabrication technologies and rapidly
progressing surface functionalization strategies, silicon‐based devices have been widely …

[HTML][HTML] Demonstration of scalable microring weight bank control for large-scale photonic integrated circuits

C Huang, S Bilodeau, T Ferreira de Lima, AN Tait… - APL Photonics, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Microring resonators (MRRs) are reconfigurable optical elements ubiquitous in photonic
integrated circuits. Owing to its high sensitivity, MRR control is very challenging, especially …

Fabrication and integration of photonic devices for phase-change memory and neuromorphic computing

W Zhou, X Shen, X Yang, J Wang… - International Journal of …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
In the past decade, there has been tremendous progress in integrating chalcogenide phase-
change materials (PCMs) on the silicon photonic platform for non-volatile memory to …

A survey on silicon photonics for deep learning

FP Sunny, E Taheri, M Nikdast, S Pasricha - ACM Journal of Emerging …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Deep learning has led to unprecedented successes in solving some very difficult problems
in domains such as computer vision, natural language processing, and general pattern …

The diamond mesh, a phase-error-and loss-tolerant field-programmable MZI-based optical processor for optical neural networks

F Shokraneh, S Geoffroy-Gagnon… - Optics …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
This paper presents the performance analysis of a phase error-and loss-tolerant multiport
field-programmable MZI-based structure for optical neural networks (ONNs). Compared to …

A Single Layer Neural Network Implemented by a MZI-Based Optical Processor

F Shokraneh, S Geoffroy-Gagnon… - IEEE Photonics …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Implementing any linear transformation matrix through the optical channels of an on-chip
reconfigurable multiport interferometer has been emerging as a promising technique for …