Analog nanophotonic computing going practical: silicon photonic deep learning engines for tiled optical matrix multiplication with dynamic precision

G Giamougiannis, A Tsakyridis, M Moralis-Pegios… - …, 2023 - degruyter.com
Analog photonic computing comprises a promising candidate for accelerating the linear
operations of deep neural networks (DNNs), since it provides ultrahigh bandwidth, low …

Programmable tanh-, elu-, sigmoid-, and sin-based nonlinear activation functions for neuromorphic photonics

C Pappas, S Kovaios, M Moralis-Pegios… - IEEE Journal of …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We demonstrate a programmable analog opto-electronic (OE) circuit that can be configured
to provide a range of nonlinear activation functions for incoherent neuromorphic photonic …

Neuromorphic silicon photonics with 50 GHz tiled matrix multiplication for deep-learning applications

G Giamougiannis, A Tsakyridis… - Advanced …, 2023 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The explosive volume growth of deep-learning (DL) applications has triggered an era in
computing, with neuromorphic photonic platforms promising to merge ultra-high speed and …

Universal linear optics revisited: new perspectives for neuromorphic computing with silicon photonics

G Giamougiannis, A Tsakyridis… - IEEE Journal of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reprogrammable optical meshes comprise a subject of heightened interest for the execution
of linear transformations, having a significant impact in numerous applications that extend …

Perfect linear optics using silicon photonics

M Moralis-Pegios, G Giamougiannis… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Recently there has been growing interest in using photonics to perform the linear algebra
operations of neuromorphic and quantum computing applications, aiming at harnessing …

Photonic neural networks and optics-informed deep learning fundamentals

A Tsakyridis, M Moralis-Pegios, G Giamougiannis… - APL Photonics, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
The recent explosive compute growth, mainly fueled by the boost of artificial intelligence (AI)
and deep neural networks (DNNs), is currently instigating the demand for a novel computing …

Quantization-aware training for low precision photonic neural networks

M Kirtas, A Oikonomou, N Passalis… - Neural Networks, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Recent advances in Deep Learning (DL) fueled the interest in developing
neuromorphic hardware accelerators that can improve the computational speed and energy …

Universal Linear Optics for Ultra-Fast Neuromorphic Silicon Photonics Towards Fj/MAC and TMAC/sec/mm2 Engines

A Tsakyridis, G Giamougiannis… - IEEE Journal of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The field of neuromorphic photonics has been projected to comprise the next-generation
Neural Network platform, expected to lead to remarkable advances in compute energy-and …

Neuromorphic Photonics Circuits: Contemporary Review

RV Kutluyarov, AG Zakoyan, GS Voronkov… - Nanomaterials, 2023 - mdpi.com
Neuromorphic photonics is a cutting-edge fusion of neuroscience-inspired computing and
photonics technology to overcome the constraints of conventional computing architectures …

Mixed-precision quantization-aware training for photonic neural networks

M Kirtas, N Passalis, A Oikonomou… - Neural Computing and …, 2023 - Springer
The energy demanding nature of deep learning (DL) has fueled the immense attention for
neuromorphic architectures due to their ability to operate in a very high frequencies in a very …