A synthesis of photonic platforms that have already shown programmability, high integration density and stability, and that can support large-scale AI models, edge computing, and logic and scientific computing are offered.
Modern computing systems are increasingly constrained by the mismatch among computation, communication, and energy, which has motivated the exploration of optoelectronic computing as an alternative high-performance computing paradigm. By combining the ultrahigh bandwidth and parallelism of photonics with the control, m...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is driving unprecedented demands on computing infrastructure, where increasing data movement between accelerators, memory, and networking components has become a critical challenge for system scalability. Silicon‐photonic optical interconnects have emerged as a promising technology to ove...
Yao-Tian Zhao, Yu-Kun Chen, Bo Xu et al.· Laser & Photonics Review...· 0 citations
Artificial intelligence is rapidly advancing, driving an urgent demand for computing hardware that can overcome the limitations of conventional electronic architectures. Photonic neural networks emerge as a promising alternative by leveraging the intrinsic advantages of light, including high bandwidth, parallelism, a...
Seokjin Hong, Berkay Neseli, Seungyeon Cho et al.· Advanced Optical Materials· 0 citations
Photonics has the potential to transform high-speed and energy-efficient artificial intelligence. However, most photonic computing platforms still rely on costly electro-optic conversions for data input, weight loading and storage, resulting in substantial overhead during large-scale computation. Here, we present a lar...
Optical computing represents a transformative hardware paradigm for the post‐Moore era, exploiting its inherent advantages of high speed, low power consumption, and intrinsic parallelism. Nonetheless, state‐of‐the‐art integrated optical computing systems suffer from critical limitations, including fixed functionality...
Jianwei Cui, Hai-Long Zhou, Hongyan Shi et al.· Laser & Photonics Review...· 1 citation
This paper reviews recent advances in the field of photonic devices integrating phase-change materials (PCMs). In particular, certain PCMs showcase interesting properties such as non-volatile behaviour and ultra-low optical losses that can be leveraged in computing architectures. For example, they can operate as comp...
Ranjeet Dwivedi, Charles Pourny, Anthony Albanese et al.· Frontiers in Photonics· 0 citations
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