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most citedLiDAR 2.0: Hierarchical Curvy Waveguide Detailed Routing for Large-Scale Photonic Integrated Circuits

4 citations · 6 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

quant-ph2026

A Cryogenic Hybrid Photonic/CMOS Controller Architecture for Scalable Superconducting Qubit Control

Bowen Liu, Zhaoran Rena Huang

Scaling superconducting quantum computers toward thousands of control channels remains a difficult hardware problem. This requires reducing room-temperature-to-cryogenic interconne…

physics.optics2025

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…

physics.optics2025

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…

cs.ET2025★ 4 cited

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…

cs.ET2025

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…

physics.optics2024

SimPhony: A Device-Circuit-Architecture Cross-Layer Modeling and Simulation Framework for Heterogeneous Electronic-Photonic AI System

Ziang Yin, Meng Zhang, Amir Begovic +3

Electronic-photonic integrated circuits (EPICs) offer transformative potential for next-generation high-performance AI but require interdisciplinary advances across devices, circui…

physics.optics2024

BOSON: Understanding and Enabling Physically-Robust Photonic Inverse Design with Adaptive Variation-Aware Subspace Optimization

Pingchuan Ma, Zhengqi Gao, Amir Begovic +6

Nanophotonic device design aims to optimize photonic structures to meet specific requirements across various applications. Inverse design has unlocked non-intuitive, high-dimension…

physics.optics2024

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…

cs.ET2024★ 2 cited

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…