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 …

Review of silicon photonics technology and platform development

SY Siew, B Li, F Gao, HY Zheng, W Zhang… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Many breakthroughs in the laboratories often do not bridge the gap between research and
commercialization. However, silicon photonics bucked the trend, with industry observers …

Massively scalable Kerr comb-driven silicon photonic link

A Rizzo, A Novick, V Gopal, BY Kim, X Ji, S Daudlin… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The growth of computing needs for artificial intelligence and machine learning is critically
challenging data communications in today's data-centre systems. Data movement …

An on-chip photonic deep neural network for image classification

F Ashtiani, AJ Geers, F Aflatouni - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Deep neural networks with applications from computer vision to medical diagnosis,,,–are
commonly implemented using clock-based processors,,,,,,,–, in which computation speed is …

Programmable photonic circuits

W Bogaerts, D Pérez, J Capmany, DAB Miller, J Poon… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
The growing maturity of integrated photonic technology makes it possible to build
increasingly large and complex photonic circuits on the surface of a chip. Today, most of …

Delocalized photonic deep learning on the internet's edge

A Sludds, S Bandyopadhyay, Z Chen, Z Zhong… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Advanced machine learning models are currently impossible to run on edge devices such
as smart sensors and unmanned aerial vehicles owing to constraints on power, processing …

Coherent LiDAR with an 8,192-element optical phased array and driving laser

CV Poulton, MJ Byrd, P Russo, B Moss… - IEEE Journal of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present recent advancements of optical phased array LiDAR with record-performance
system demonstrations. First, we give an overview of the technology and how it combines …

Integrated photonics packaging: challenges and opportunities

L Ranno, P Gupta, K Gradkowski, R Bernson… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Packaging of photonic integrated circuit (PIC) chips is an essential and critical step before
they can be integrated into functional optoelectronic systems. Photonic packaging is …

A full degree-of-freedom spatiotemporal light modulator

CL Panuski, I Christen, M Minkov, CJ Brabec… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Harnessing the full complexity of optical fields requires the complete control of all degrees of
freedom within a region of space and time—an open goal for present-day spatial light …

Silicon photonic microresonator-based high-resolution line-by-line pulse sha**

LM Cohen, K Wu, KV Myilswamy, S Fatema… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Optical pulse sha** stands as a formidable technique in ultrafast optics, radio-frequency
photonics, and quantum communications. While existing systems rely on bulk optics or …