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OptiClear: Differentiable Curvilinear Design Rule Legalization for Inverse-Designed Photonic Devices
Hongjian Zhou, Haoyu Yang, Nicholas Gangi +3
Photonic inverse design enables ultra-compact, high-performance devices with highly curvilinear and non-intuitive geometries, but the resulting layouts often violate fabrication de…
SKYLIGHT: A Scalable Hundred-Channel 3D Photonic In-Memory Tensor Core Architecture for Real-time AI Inference
Meng Zhang, Ziang Yin, Nicholas Gangi +5
The growing computational demands of artificial intelligence (AI) are challenging conventional electronics, making photonic computing a promising alternative. However, existing pho…
PRISM: Photonics-Informed Inverse Lithography for Manufacturable Inverse-Designed Photonic Integrated Circuits
Hongjian Zhou, Haoyu Yang, Nicholas Gangi +3
Recent advances in photonic inverse design have demonstrated the ability to automatically synthesize compact, high-performance photonic components that surpass conventional, hand-d…
Toward Large-Scale Photonics-Empowered AI Systems: From Physical Design Automation to System-Algorithm Co-Exploration
Ziang Yin, Hongjian Zhou, Nicholas Gangi +4
In this work, we identify three considerations that are essential for realizing practical photonic AI systems at scale: (1) dynamic tensor operation support for modern models rathe…
Photonics-Aware Planning-Guided Automated Electrical Routing for Large-Scale Active Photonic Integrated Circuits
Hongjian Zhou, Haoyu Yang, Nicholas Gangi +6
The rising demand for AI training and inference, as well as scientific computing, combined with stringent latency and energy budgets, is driving the adoption of integrated photonic…
SP2RINT: Spatially-Decoupled Physics-Inspired Progressive Inverse Optimization for Scalable, PDE-Constrained Meta-Optical Neural Network Training
Pingchuan Ma, Ziang Yin, Qi Jing +8
DONNs leverage light propagation for efficient analog AI and signal processing. Advances in nanophotonic fabrication and metasurface-based wavefront engineering have opened new pat…
LiDAR 2.0: Hierarchical Curvy Waveguide Detailed Routing for Large-Scale Photonic Integrated Circuits
Hongjian Zhou, Haoyu Yang, Ziang Ying +6
Driven by innovations in photonic computing and interconnects, photonic integrated circuit (PIC) designs advance and grow in complexity. Traditional manual physical design processe…
Apollo: Automated Routing-Informed Placement for Large-Scale Photonic Integrated Circuits
Hongjian Zhou, Haoyu Yang, Nicholas Gangi +3
As technology advances, photonic integrated circuits (PICs) are rapidly scaling in size and complexity, with modern designs integrating thousands of components. However, the analog…
SCATTER: Algorithm-Circuit Co-Sparse Photonic Accelerator with Thermal-Tolerant, Power-Efficient In-situ Light Redistribution
Ziang Yin, Nicholas Gangi, Meng Zhang +3
Photonic computing has emerged as a promising solution for accelerating computation-intensive artificial intelligence (AI) workloads. However, limited reconfigurability, high elect…
Silicon Photonics Foundry Fabricated, Slow-Light Enhanced, Low Power Thermal Phase Shifter
Alexander Chen, Meng Zhang, Daniel Crowley +3
In this research, we developed a low-power silicon photonics foundry-fabricated slow-light thermal phase shifter (SLTPS) where the slow-light (SL) effect is achieved using an integ…
TeMPO: Efficient Time-Multiplexed Dynamic Photonic Tensor Core for Edge AI with Compact Slow-Light Electro-Optic Modulator
Meng Zhang, Dennis Yin, Nicholas Gangi +4
Electronic-photonic computing systems offer immense potential in energy-efficient artificial intelligence (AI) acceleration tasks due to the superior computing speed and efficiency…