Photonic matrix multiplication lights up photonic accelerator and beyond

H Zhou, J Dong, J Cheng, W Dong, C Huang… - Light: Science & …, 2022 - nature.com
Matrix computation, as a fundamental building block of information processing in science
and technology, contributes most of the computational overheads in modern signal …

Experimentally realized in situ backpropagation for deep learning in photonic neural networks

S Pai, Z Sun, TW Hughes, T Park, B Bartlett… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Integrated photonic neural networks provide a promising platform for energy-efficient, high-
throughput machine learning with extensive scientific and commercial applications. Photonic …

Silicon-based optoelectronics for general-purpose matrix computation: a review

P Xu, Z Zhou - Advanced Photonics, 2022 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Conventional electronic processors, which are the mainstream and almost invincible
hardware for computation, are approaching their limits in both computational power and …

Reprogrammable electro-optic nonlinear activation functions for optical neural networks

IAD Williamson, TW Hughes, M Minkov… - IEEE Journal of …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We introduce an electro-optic hardware platform for nonlinear activation functions in optical
neural networks. The optical-to-optical nonlinearity operates by converting a small portion of …

Single chip photonic deep neural network with accelerated training

S Bandyopadhyay, A Sludds, S Krastanov… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
As deep neural networks (DNNs) revolutionize machine learning, energy consumption and
throughput are emerging as fundamental limitations of CMOS electronics. This has …

Hardware error correction for programmable photonics

S Bandyopadhyay, R Hamerly, D Englund - Optica, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Programmable photonic circuits of reconfigurable interferometers can be used to implement
arbitrary operations on optical modes, providing a flexible platform for accelerating tasks in …

Design of optical neural networks with component imprecisions

MYS Fang, S Manipatruni, C Wierzynski… - Optics express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
For the benefit of designing scalable, fault resistant optical neural networks (ONNs), we
investigate the effects architectural designs have on the ONNs' robustness to imprecise …

Photonic probabilistic machine learning using quantum vacuum noise

S Choi, Y Salamin, C Roques-Carmes… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Probabilistic machine learning utilizes controllable sources of randomness to encode
uncertainty and enable statistical modeling. Harnessing the pure randomness of quantum …

Experimental realization of arbitrary activation functions for optical neural networks

MM Pour Fard, IAD Williamson, M Edwards, K Liu… - Optics …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
We experimentally demonstrate an on-chip electro-optic circuit for realizing arbitrary
nonlinear activation functions for optical neural networks (ONNs). The circuit operates by …

Ten-port unitary optical processor on a silicon photonic chip

R Tang, R Tanomura, T Tanemura, Y Nakano - Acs Photonics, 2021 - ACS Publications
Unitary optical processors (UOPs) are task-specific computing units that can ultimately
enable ultrafast and energy-efficient unitary matrix-vector multiplications based on the …