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most citedPhotonics for Neuromorphic Computing: Fundamentals, Devices, and Opportunities

106 citations · 193 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

physics.optics2026

When Every Simulation Counts: Value-Based Reinforcement Learning for Accelerated Photonics Inverse Design

Longying Wen, Feiyang Wu, Jinglin Yu +3

Photonic-crystal surface-emitting lasers (PCSELs) can combine high-power operation with narrow-divergence surface emission, but optimizing coupled parameters requires costly full-w…

physics.optics2026

Reliability-Aware Bayesian Optimization of 1310 nm PCSELs with FDTD Verification

Jinglin Yu, Feiyang Wu, Longying Wen +3

Near 1310 nm photonic-crystal surface-emitting lasers (PCSELs) are attractive narrow-beam sources for optical communication and sensing, but their final design refinement is costly…

cs.AR2025

What Is Next for LLMs? Next-Generation AI Computing Hardware Using Photonic Chips

Renjie Li, Wenjie Wei, Qi Xin +7

Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly pushing the limits of contemporary computing hardware. For example, training GPT-3 has been estimated to consume around 1300 MWh of electri…

physics.app-ph2024

Inverse Design of Photonic Crystal Surface Emitting Lasers is a Sequence Modeling Problem

Ceyao Zhang, Renjie Li, Cheng Zhang +2

Photonic Crystal Surface Emitting Lasers (PCSEL)'s inverse design demands expert knowledge in physics, materials science, and quantum mechanics which is prohibitively labor-intensi…

physics.optics2023★ 106 cited

Photonics for Neuromorphic Computing: Fundamentals, Devices, and Opportunities

Renjie Li, Yuanhao Gong, Hai Huang +4

In the dynamic landscape of Artificial Intelligence (AI), two notable phenomena are becoming predominant: the exponential growth of large AI model sizes and the explosion of massiv…

cs.LG2022★ 2 cited

POViT: Vision Transformer for Multi-objective Design and Characterization of Nanophotonic Devices

Xinyu Chen, Renjie Li, Yueyao Yu +4

We solve a fundamental challenge in semiconductor IC design: the fast and accurate characterization of nanoscale photonic devices. Much like the fusion between AI and EDA, many eff…

physics.optics2021★ 1 cited

LLM4Laser: Large Language Models Automate the Design of Lasers

Renjie Li, Ceyao Zhang, Sixuan Mao +4

With the rapid evolution of global autonomous driving technology, the demand for its core sensing hardware, Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR), is escalating. As the light source…

physics.optics2020★ 84 cited

All van der Waals Integrated Nanophotonics

Haonan Ling, Renjie Li, Artur R. Davoyan

Integrated optics is at the heart of a wide range of systems from remote sensing and communications to computing and quantum information processing. Demand for smaller and more ene…