An electro-photonic system for accelerating deep neural networks

C Demirkiran, F Eris, G Wang, J Elmhurst… - ACM journal on …, 2023‏ - dl.acm.org
The number of parameters in deep neural networks (DNNs) is scaling at about 5× the rate of
Moore's Law. To sustain this growth, photonic computing is a promising avenue, as it …

Asymptotically fault-tolerant programmable photonics

R Hamerly, S Bandyopadhyay, D Englund - Nature Communications, 2022‏ - nature.com
Component errors limit the scaling of programmable coherent photonic circuits. These errors
arise because the standard tunable photonic coupler—the Mach-Zehnder interferometer …

Accurate self-configuration of rectangular multiport interferometers

R Hamerly, S Bandyopadhyay, D Englund - Physical Review Applied, 2022‏ - APS
Multiport interferometers based on integrated beamsplitter meshes are widely used in
photonic technologies. While the rectangular mesh is favored for its compactness and …

Transferable learning on analog hardware

SK Vadlamani, D Englund, R Hamerly - Science Advances, 2023‏ - science.org
While analog neural network (NN) accelerators promise massive energy and time savings,
an important challenge is to make them robust to static fabrication error. Present-day training …

Heavy tails and pruning in programmable photonic circuits for universal unitaries

S Yu, N Park - Nature Communications, 2023‏ - nature.com
Develo** hardware for high-dimensional unitary operators plays a vital role in
implementing quantum computations and deep learning accelerations. Programmable …

Iterative configuration of programmable unitary converter based on few-layer redundant multiplane light conversion

Y Taguchi, Y Wang, R Tanomura, T Tanemura… - Physical Review Applied, 2023‏ - APS
Programmable unitary photonic devices are emerging as promising tools to implement
unitary transformation for quantum information processing, machine learning, and optical …

Electro-optically programmable photonic circuits enabled by wafer-scale integration on thin-film lithium niobate

Y Zheng, H Zhong, H Zhang, L Song, J Liu, Y Liang… - Physical Review …, 2023‏ - APS
Programmable photonic circuits performing universal linear-optical transformations underpin
vital functions in photonic quantum information processing, quantum-enhanced sensor …