Analog photonics computing for information processing, inference, and optimization

N Stroev, NG Berloff - Advanced Quantum Technologies, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This review presents an overview of the current state‐of‐the‐art in photonics computing,
which leverages photons, photons coupled with matter, and optics‐related technologies for …

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 …

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 …

High-performance end-to-end deep learning IM/DD link using optics-informed neural networks

I Roumpos, LD Marinis, M Kirtas, N Passalis, A Tefas… - Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
In this paper, we introduce optics-informed Neural Networks and demonstrate
experimentally how they can improve performance of End-to-End deep learning models for …

Approximate Computing: Concepts, Architectures, Challenges, Applications, and Future Directions

AM Dalloo, AJ Humaidi, AK Al Mhdawi… - IEEE …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The unprecedented progress in computational technologies led to a substantial proliferation
of artificial intelligence applications, notably in the era of big data and IoT devices. In the …

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 …

Programmable Tanh-and ELU-based photonic neurons in optics-informed neural networks

S Kovaios, C Pappas, M Moralis-Pegios… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We demonstrate an integrated opto-electronic (ΟΕ) device that can be programmed to
provide a set of nonlinear activation functions (AFs) and present its operation within …

Analysis of Integration Technologies for High-Speed Analog Neuromorphic Photonics

L De Marinis, N Andriolli… - IEEE Journal of Selected …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
While the use of graphic processing units fueled the success of artificial intelligence models,
their future evolution will likely require overcoming the speed and energy efficiency …

Neural network learning with photonics and for photonic circuit design

D Brunner, MC Soriano, S Fan - Nanophotonics, 2023 - degruyter.com
This special issue covers works that lie at the interface between machine learning,
spearheaded by the computing power of artificial neural networks (NN), and photonic …