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 …

A review of capabilities and scope for hybrid integration offered by silicon-nitride-based photonic integrated circuits

F Gardes, A Shooa, G De Paoli, I Skandalos, S Ilie… - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
In this review we present some of the recent advances in the field of silicon nitride photonic
integrated circuits. The review focuses on the material deposition techniques currently …

An optical neural network using less than 1 photon per multiplication

T Wang, SY Ma, LG Wright, T Onodera… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Deep learning has become a widespread tool in both science and industry. However,
continued progress is hampered by the rapid growth in energy costs of ever-larger deep …

Noise-resilient and high-speed deep learning with coherent silicon photonics

G Mourgias-Alexandris, M Moralis-Pegios… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The explosive growth of deep learning applications has triggered a new era in computing
hardware, targeting the efficient deployment of multiply-and-accumulate operations. In this …

Scalable reservoir computing on coherent linear photonic processor

M Nakajima, K Tanaka, T Hashimoto - Communications Physics, 2021 - nature.com
Photonic neuromorphic computing is of particular interest due to its significant potential for
ultrahigh computing speed and energy efficiency. The advantage of photonic computing …

Neuromorphic silicon photonics and hardware-aware deep learning for high-speed inference

M Moralis-Pegios… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The relentless growth of Artificial Intelligence (AI) workloads has fueled the drive towards
non-Von Neuman architectures and custom computing hardware. Neuromorphic photonic …

Optical coherent dot-product chip for sophisticated deep learning regression

S Xu, J Wang, H Shu, Z Zhang, S Yi, B Bai… - Light: Science & …, 2021 - nature.com
Optical implementations of neural networks (ONNs) herald the next-generation high-speed
and energy-efficient deep learning computing by harnessing the technical advantages of …

Analog nanophotonic computing going practical: silicon photonic deep learning engines for tiled optical matrix multiplication with dynamic precision

G Giamougiannis, A Tsakyridis, M Moralis-Pegios… - …, 2023 - degruyter.com
Analog photonic computing comprises a promising candidate for accelerating the linear
operations of deep neural networks (DNNs), since it provides ultrahigh bandwidth, low …

Programmable photonic neural networks combining WDM with coherent linear optics

A Totovic, G Giamougiannis, A Tsakyridis… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Neuromorphic photonics has relied so far either solely on coherent or Wavelength-Division-
Multiplexing (WDM) designs for enabling dot-product or vector-by-matrix multiplication …

Scalable and compact photonic neural chip with low learning-capability-loss

Y Tian, Y Zhao, S Liu, Q Li, W Wang, J Feng, J Guo - Nanophotonics, 2022 - degruyter.com
Photonic computation has garnered huge attention due to its great potential to accelerate
artificial neural network tasks at much higher clock rate to digital electronic alternatives …