Neuromorphic photonic technologies and architectures: scaling opportunities and performance frontiers

G Dabos, DV Bellas, R Stabile… - Optical Materials …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
We review different technologies and architectures for neuromorphic photonic accelerators,
spanning from bulk optics to photonic-integrated-circuits (PICs), and assess compute …

Neuromorphic silicon photonics and hardware-aware deep learning for high-speed inference

M Moralis-Pegios… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The relentless growth of Artificial Intelligence (AI) workloads has fueled the drive towards
non-Von Neuman architectures and custom computing hardware. Neuromorphic photonic …

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 photonic neural networks combining WDM with coherent linear optics

A Totovic, G Giamougiannis, A Tsakyridis… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Neuromorphic photonics has relied so far either solely on coherent or Wavelength-Division-
Multiplexing (WDM) designs for enabling dot-product or vector-by-matrix multiplication …

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 …

WDM equipped universal linear optics for programmable neuromorphic photonic processors

A Totovic, C Pappas, M Kirtas… - Neuromorphic …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Non-von-Neumann computing architectures and deep learning training models have
sparked a new computational era where neurons are forming the main architectural …

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 …