PhotoniX,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
4(1)
Published: Oct. 27, 2023
Abstract
The
increasing
amount
of
data
exchange
requires
higher-capacity
optical
communication
links.
Mode
division
multiplexing
(MDM)
is
considered
as
a
promising
technology
to
support
the
higher
throughput.
In
an
MDM
system,
mode
generator
and
sorter
are
backbone.
However,
most
current
schemes
lack
programmability
universality,
which
makes
link
susceptible
crosstalk
environmental
disturbances.
this
paper,
we
propose
intelligent
multimode
using
universal
processing
(generation
sorting)
chips.
processor
consists
programmable
4
×
Mach
Zehnder
interferometer
(MZI)
network
can
be
intelligently
configured
generate
or
sort
both
quasi
linearly
polarized
(LP)
modes
orbital
angular
momentum
(OAM)
in
any
desired
routing
state.
We
experimentally
establish
chip-to-chip
system.
basis
freely
switched
between
four
LP
OAM
modes.
also
demonstrate
capability
at
rate
25
Gbit/s.
proposed
scheme
shows
significant
advantages
terms
intelligence,
resistance
crosstalk,
disturbances,
fabrication
errors,
demonstrating
that
MZI-based
reconfigurable
chip
has
great
potential
long-distance
systems.
Nature Materials,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
23(7), P. 928 - 936
Published: May 22, 2024
Controlling
topological
phases
of
light
allows
the
observation
abundant
phenomena
and
development
robust
photonic
devices.
The
prospect
more
sophisticated
control
with
devices
for
practical
implementations
requires
high-level
programmability.
Here
we
demonstrate
a
fully
programmable
chip
large-scale
integration
silicon
nanocircuits
microresonators.
Photonic
artificial
atoms
their
interactions
in
our
compound
system
can
be
individually
addressed
controlled,
allowing
arbitrary
adjustment
structural
parameters
geometrical
configurations
dynamic
phase
transitions
diverse
insulators.
Individual
programming
on
generic
enables
comprehensive
statistical
characterization
robustness
against
relatively
weak
disorders,
counterintuitive
Anderson
induced
by
strong
disorders.
This
rapidly
reprogrammed
to
implement
multifunctionalities,
providing
flexible
versatile
platform
applications
across
fundamental
science
technologies.
Science Advances,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
10(1)
Published: Jan. 5, 2024
Photonic
integrated
circuits
(PICs)
with
rapid
prototyping
and
reprogramming
capabilities
promise
revolutionary
impacts
on
a
plethora
of
photonic
technologies.
We
report
direct-write
rewritable
low-loss
phase-change
material
(PCM)
thin
film.
Complete
end-to-end
PICs
are
directly
laser-written
in
one
step
without
additional
fabrication
processes,
any
part
the
circuit
can
be
erased
rewritten,
facilitating
design
modification.
demonstrate
versatility
this
technique
for
diverse
applications,
including
an
optical
interconnect
fabric
reconfigurable
networking,
crossbar
array
computing,
tunable
filter
signal
processing.
By
combining
programmability
direct
laser
writing
PCM,
our
unlocks
opportunities
programmable
Moreover,
enable
testing
convenient
cost-efficient
manner,
eliminate
need
nanofabrication
facilities,
thus
promote
proliferation
photonics
research
education
to
broader
community.
Nature,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
632(8023), P. 55 - 62
Published: July 31, 2024
Abstract
Advancements
in
optical
coherence
control
1–5
have
unlocked
many
cutting-edge
applications,
including
long-haul
communication,
light
detection
and
ranging
(LiDAR)
tomography
6–8
.
Prevailing
wisdom
suggests
that
using
more
coherent
sources
leads
to
enhanced
system
performance
device
functionalities
9–11
Our
study
introduces
a
photonic
convolutional
processing
takes
advantage
of
partially
boost
computing
parallelism
without
substantially
sacrificing
accuracy,
potentially
enabling
larger-size
tensor
cores.
The
reduction
the
degree
optimizes
bandwidth
use
system.
This
breakthrough
challenges
traditional
belief
is
essential
or
even
advantageous
integrated
accelerators,
thereby
with
less
rigorous
feedback
thermal-management
requirements
for
high-throughput
computing.
Here
we
demonstrate
such
two
platforms
applications:
core
phase-change-material
memories
delivers
parallel
convolution
operations
classify
gaits
ten
patients
Parkinson’s
disease
92.2%
accuracy
(92.7%
theoretically)
silicon
embedded
electro-absorption
modulators
(EAMs)
facilitate
0.108
tera
per
second
(TOPS)
classifying
Modified
National
Institute
Standards
Technology
(MNIST)
handwritten
digits
dataset
92.4%
(95.0%
theoretically).
Nature,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
640(8058), P. 361 - 367
Published: April 9, 2025
Integrated
photonics,
particularly
silicon
have
emerged
as
cutting-edge
technology
driven
by
promising
applications
such
short-reach
communications,
autonomous
driving,
biosensing
and
photonic
computing1-4.
As
advances
in
AI
lead
to
growing
computing
demands,
has
gained
considerable
attention
an
appealing
candidate.
Nonetheless,
there
are
substantial
technical
challenges
the
scaling
up
of
integrated
photonics
systems
realize
these
advantages,
ensuring
consistent
performance
gains
upscaled
device
clusters,
establishing
standard
designs
verification
processes
for
complex
circuits,
well
packaging
large-scale
systems.
These
obstacles
arise
primarily
because
relative
immaturity
manufacturing
scarcity
advanced
solutions
involving
photonics.
Here
we
report
a
accelerator
comprising
more
than
16,000
components.
The
is
designed
deliver
linear
matrix
multiply-accumulate
(MAC)
functions,
enabling
with
high
speed
1
GHz
frequency
low
latency
small
3
ns
per
cycle.
Logic,
memory
control
functions
that
support
MAC
operations
were
into
cointegrated
electronics
chip.
To
seamlessly
integrate
chips
at
commercial
scale,
made
use
innovative
2.5D
hybrid
approach.
Through
development
this
system,
demonstrate
ultralow
computation
heuristic
solvers
computationally
hard
Ising
problems
whose
greatly
relies
on
latency.
Advanced Photonics,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
5(04)
Published: July 18, 2023
Optical
neural
networks
(ONNs),
enabling
low
latency
and
high
parallel
data
processing
without
electromagnetic
interference,
have
become
a
viable
player
for
fast
energy-efficient
calculation
to
meet
the
increasing
demand
hash
rate.
Photonic
memories
employing
nonvolatile
phase-change
materials
could
achieve
zero
static
power
consumption,
thermal
cross
talk,
large-scale,
high-energy-efficient
photonic
networks.
Nevertheless,
switching
speed
dynamic
energy
consumption
of
material-based
make
them
inapplicable
in
situ
training.
Here,
by
integrating
patch
phase
change
thin
film
with
PIN-diode-embedded
microring
resonator,
bifunctional
memory
both
5-bit
storage
nanoseconds
volatile
modulation
was
demonstrated.
For
first
time,
concept
is
presented
electrically
programmable
material-driven
integrated
nanosecond
allow
training
ONNs.
ONNs
an
optical
convolution
kernel
constructed
our
theoretically
achieved
accuracy
predictions
higher
than
95%
when
tested
MNIST
handwritten
digit
database.
This
provides
feasible
solution
constructing
large-scale
high-speed
capability.
Science,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
382(6676), P. 1297 - 1303
Published: Nov. 23, 2023
Recent
successes
in
deep
learning
for
vision
and
natural
language
processing
are
attributed
to
larger
models
but
come
with
energy
consumption
scalability
issues.
Current
training
of
digital
deep-learning
primarily
relies
on
backpropagation
that
is
unsuitable
physical
implementation.
In
this
work,
we
propose
a
simple
neural
network
architecture
augmented
by
local
(PhyLL)
algorithm,
which
enables
supervised
unsupervised
networks
without
detailed
knowledge
the
nonlinear
layer's
properties.
We
trained
diverse
wave-based
vowel
image
classification
experiments,
showcasing
universality
our
approach.
Our
method
shows
advantages
over
other
hardware-aware
schemes
improving
speed,
enhancing
robustness,
reducing
power
eliminating
need
system
modeling
thus
decreasing
computation.
Advances in Optics and Photonics,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
15(3), P. 739 - 739
Published: Aug. 3, 2023
This
tutorial-review
on
applications
of
artificial
neural
networks
in
photonics
targets
a
broad
audience,
ranging
from
optical
research
and
engineering
communities
to
computer
science
applied
mathematics.
We
focus
here
the
areas
at
interface
between
these
disciplines,
attempting
find
right
balance
technical
details
specific
each
domain
overall
clarity.
First,
we
briefly
recall
key
properties
peculiarities
some
core
network
types,
which
believe
are
most
relevant
photonics,
also
linking
layer's
theoretical
design
hardware
realizations.
After
that,
elucidate
question
how
fine-tune
selected
model's
perform
required
task
with
optimized
accuracy.
Then,
review
part,
discuss
recent
developments
progress
for
several
including
multiple
aspects
communications,
imaging,
sensing,
new
materials
lasers.
In
following
section,
put
special
emphasis
accurately
evaluate
complexity
context
transition
algorithms
implementation.
The
introduced
characteristics
used
analyze
as
specific,
albeit
highly
important
example,
comparing
those
benchmark
signal
processing
methods.
combine
description
well-known
model
compression
strategies
machine
learning,
novel
techniques
recently
networks.
It
is
stress
that
although
our
this
methods
presented
can
be
handy
much
wider
range
scientific
applications.