Optical neural networks: progress and challenges

T Fu, J Zhang, R Sun, Y Huang, W Xu, S Yang… - Light: Science & …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Artificial intelligence has prevailed in all trades and professions due to the assistance of big
data resources, advanced algorithms, and high-performance electronic hardware. However …

Recent progress in silicon‐based photonic integrated circuits and emerging applications

Z **ao, W Liu, S Xu, J Zhou, Z Ren… - Advanced Optical …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, with the further ministration of the semiconductor device in integrated
circuits, power consumption and data transmission bandwidth have become insurmountable …

The intelligent design of silicon photonic devices

Z Li, Z Zhou, C Qiu, Y Chen, B Liang… - Advanced Optical …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Photonic devices based on silicon waveguides are essential to versatile high‐performance
and low‐cost photonic integrated systems. Extremely complex silicon photonic devices with …

Inverse design of compact nonvolatile reconfigurable silicon photonic devices with phase-change materials

M Wei, X Lin, K Xu, Y Wu, C Wang, Z Wang, K Lei… - …, 2024‏ - degruyter.com
In the development of silicon photonics, the continued downsizing of photonic integrated
circuits will further increase the integration density, which augments the functionality of …

Towards large-scale programmable silicon photonic chip for signal processing

Y **e, J Wu, S Hong, C Wang, S Liu, H Li, X Ju, X Ke… - …, 2024‏ - degruyter.com
Optical signal processing has been playing a crucial part as powerful engine for various
information systems in the practical applications. In particular, achieving large-scale …

Self-calibrating microring synapse with dual-wavelength synchronization

J Cheng, Z He, Y Guo, B Wu, H Zhou, T Chen… - Photonics …, 2023‏ - opg.optica.org
As a resonator-based optical hardware in analog optical computing, a microring synapse
can be straightforwardly configured to simulate the connection weights between neurons …

Programmable integrated photonic coherent matrix: Principle, configuring, and applications

B Wu, H Zhou, J Dong, X Zhang - Applied Physics Reviews, 2024‏ - pubs.aip.org
Every multi-input multi-output linear optical system can be deemed as a matrix multiplier that
carries out a desired transformation on the input optical information, such as imaging …

Redundancy-free integrated optical convolver for optical neural networks based on arrayed waveguide grating

S Zhang, H Zhou, B Wu, X Jiang, D Gao, J Xu… - Nanophotonics, 2024‏ - degruyter.com
Optical neural networks (ONNs) have gained significant attention due to their potential for
high-speed and energy-efficient computation in artificial intelligence. The implementation of …

Real-valued optical matrix computing with simplified MZI mesh

B Wu, S Liu, J Cheng, W Dong, H Zhou, J Dong… - Intelligent …, 2023‏ - spj.science.org
The Mach–Zehnder interferometer (MZI) mesh, a mainstream structure for optical matrix-
vector multiplication (MVM), has been widely employed in recently developed optical neural …

[HTML][HTML] On-chip photonic spatial-temporal descrambler

W Zhang, X Jiang, W Gu, J Cheng, H Zhou, J Dong… - Chip, 2023‏ - Elsevier
As an indispensable part to compensate for the signal crosstalk in fiber communication
systems, conventional digital multi-input multi-output (MIMO) signal processor is facing the …