The challenges of modern computing and new opportunities for optics
In recent years, the explosive development of artificial intelligence implementing by artificial neural networks (ANNs) creates inconceivable demands for computing hardware.
Chong Li +4 more
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Approximate analog computing with metatronic circuits
All-optical platforms hold potential for fast and efficient analog computing, but are limited by their size and poor reconfigurability. Here, a zero-index nanophotonic platform enables post-Moore’s law analog optical computing, processing data with high ...
Mario Miscuglio +8 more
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Metasurface-Based Quantum Searcher on a Silicon-On-Insulator Chip
Optical analog computing has natural advantages of parallel computation, high speed and low energy consumption over traditional digital computing.
Zeyong Wei +5 more
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The Data Conversion Bottleneck in Analog Computing Accelerators [PDF]
Most modern computing tasks have digital electronic input and output data. Due to these constraints imposed by real-world use cases of computer systems, any analog computing accelerator, whether analog electronic or optical, must perform an analog-to ...
Stanley-Marbell, Phillip +2 more
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Diffractive integrated photonics for analog computing and machine learning
Gu, TingyiRecently, optical analog signal processing draws a lot of attentions due to the rising of deep learning, and integrated photonics is a promising platform.
Wang, Zi
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Perfect splitting in rectangular-waveguide junctions for analog computing [PDF]
It has recently been shown how computing operations such as high-speed switching, routing, and solving partial differential equations can be performed by exploiting perfect splitting of electromagnetic waves in networks of waveguides from microwaves to ...
William Rogers +3 more
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A metalens-based analog computing system for ultrasonic Fourier transform calculations
Wave-based analog computing is a new computing paradigm heralded as a potentially superior alternative to existing digital computers. Currently, there are optical and low-frequency acoustic analog Fourier transformers.
Robert Frederik Uy, Viet Phuong Bui
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Lumped time-delay compensation scheme for coding synchronization in the nonlinear spectral quantization-based all-optical analog-to-digital conversion [PDF]
In this paper, we propose a novel lumped time-delay compensation scheme for the all-optical analog-to-digital conversion based on soliton self-frequency shift and optical interconnection techniques.
Y, Chongxiu +9 more
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Optical differentiation based on the Brewster effect [PDF]
In this work, technologies of analog optical computing for image edge detection using flat interfaces between dielectrics are studied both theoretically and experimentally.
Dmitry Nesterenko +2 more
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On-chip integratable all-optical quantizer using strong cross-phase modulation in a silicon-organic hybrid slot waveguide [PDF]
High performance all-optical quantizer based on silicon waveguide is believed to have significant applications in photonic integratable optical communication links, optical interconnection networks, and real-time signal processing systems. In this paper,
Yuan, Jinhui +33 more
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