Diffractive optical computing in free space

J Hu, D Mengu, DC Tzarouchis, B Edwards… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Structured optical materials create new computing paradigms using photons, with
transformative impact on various fields, including machine learning, computer vision …

Solving partial differential equations with waveguide-based metatronic networks

RG MacDonald, A Yakovlev… - Advanced Photonics …, 2024 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Photonic computing has recently become an interesting paradigm for high-speed calculation
of computing processes using light–matter interactions. Here, we propose and study an …

Inverse-designed integrated biosensors

A Didari-Bader, S Pelton… - Optical Materials …, 2024 - opg.optica.org
We propose a refractive index sensor in a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) platform inspired by the
operation of multimode fiber sensors. The sensor utilizes an optimized SOI resonator …

[HTML][HTML] Metamaterials: The Art in Materials Science

J Sun, J Zhou - Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
Composed of natural materials but constructed using artificial structures through ingenious
design, metamaterials possess properties beyond nature. Unlike traditional materials …

Scaling on-chip photonic neural processors using arbitrarily programmable wave propagation

T Onodera, MM Stein, BA Ash, MM Sohoni… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
On-chip photonic processors for neural networks have potential benefits in both speed and
energy efficiency but have not yet reached the scale at which they can outperform electronic …

Topological Valley Photonic Waveguides: Scattering matrix evaluation for linear computing

C Johnson-Richards, A Yakovlev… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Topological boundary modes utilizing valley mode waveguides have opened opportunities
in, for instance, the design of high transmission waveguides with tolerance to geometrical …

Low-depth, compact, and error-tolerant photonic matrix-vector multiplication beyond the unitary group

SA Fldzhyan, MY Saygin, SS Straupe - Optics Express, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Large-scale programmable photonic circuits are opening up new possibilities for information
processing providing fast and energy-efficient means for matrix-vector multiplication. Here …

Inverse design and experimental realization of plasma metamaterials

JA Rodríguez, MA Cappelli - Physical Review Applied, 2023 - APS
We apply inverse-design methods to produce two-dimensional triangular-lattice plasma-
metamaterial (PMM) devices, which are then constructed and demonstrated experimentally …

Adjoint-optimized logic gates for photonic computing

SAH Gangaraj, DT Nguyen - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Logic gates are crucial in computing as they facilitate information processing. Various gates,
from basic AND, OR and X gates to more complex C-NOT gates are essential for the …

Ultracompact programmable silicon photonics using layers of low-loss phase-change material SbSe of increasing thickness

S Blundell, T Radford, IA Ajia, D Lawson, X Yan… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
High-performance programmable silicon photonic circuits are considered to be a critical part
of next generation architectures for optical processing, photonic quantum circuits and neural …