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most citedExperimentally realized in situ backpropagation for deep learning in nanophotonic neural networks

330 citations · 341 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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physics.optics2026

Moving forward with multilayer metastructures - simple design of complex optics

David A. B. Miller

I propose a simple and progressive way of designing and fabricating complex multilayered optics, even as we scale to large numbers of layers. The approach relies on successive laye…

physics.optics2023

Scalable Low-latency Optical Phase Sensor Array

Zhanghao Sun, Sunil Pai, Carson Valdez +5

Optical phase measurement is critical for many applications and traditional approaches often suffer from mechanical instability, temporal latency, and computational complexity. In…

physics.optics2022★ 5 cited

Scalable and self-correcting photonic computation using balanced photonic binary tree cascades

Sunil Pai, Olav Solgaard, Shanhui Fan +1

Programmable unitary photonic networks that interfere hundreds of modes are emerging as a key technology in energy-efficient sensing, machine learning, cryptography, and linear opt…

cs.ET2022★ 5 cited

Experimental evaluation of digitally-verifiable photonic computing for blockchain and cryptocurrency

Sunil Pai, Taewon Park, Marshall Ball +9

As blockchain technology and cryptocurrency become increasingly mainstream, ever-increasing energy costs required to maintain the computational power running these decentralized pl…

cs.ET2022★ 330 cited

Experimentally realized in situ backpropagation for deep learning in nanophotonic neural networks

Sunil Pai, Zhanghao Sun, Tyler W. Hughes +11

Neural networks are widely deployed models across many scientific disciplines and commercial endeavors ranging from edge computing and sensing to large-scale signal processing in d…

cs.IT2022★ 1 cited

Bounds on the Coupling Strengths of Communication Channels and Their Information Capacities

Zeyu Kuang, David A. B. Miller, Owen D. Miller

The concept of optimal communication channels shapes our understanding of wave-based communication. Its analysis, however, always pertains to specific communication-domain geometri…