activity
20242026
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6 papers

physics.optics2026

Optical Implementation of Equilibrium Propagation Using Spatial Photonic Ising Machines

Dimitri Vanden Abeele, Daniele Veraldi, Davide Pierangeli +2

Equilibrium Propagation offers a compelling alternative to traditional machine learning for training energy-based networks. Here we demonstrate a hybrid optical-digital implementat…

physics.optics2026

Precision Hamiltonian Encoding in Full-Aperture Spatial Photonic Ising Machines

D. Karanikolopoulos, P. S. Karavelas, L. Mouchliadis +11

Spatial photonic Ising machines (SPIMs) offer compact, room-temperature hardware with inherently parallel, energy-efficient, single-shot optical evaluation of the Ising Hamiltonian…

physics.optics2025

Analyzing partially-polarized light with a photonic deep random neural network

Alessandro Petrini, Claudio Conti, Davide Pierangeli

Optical neural networks are emerging as a powerful and versatile tool for processing optical signals directly in the optical domain with superior speed, integrability, and function…

physics.optics2025

Ising machine by dimensional collapse of nonlinear polarization oscillators

Salvatore Chiavazzo, Marcello Calvanese Strinati, Claudio Conti +1

Ising machines show promise as ultrafast hardware for optimizations encoded in Ising Hamiltonians but fall short in terms of success rate and performance scaling. Here, we propose…

cs.ET2025

Roadmap on Neuromorphic Photonics

Daniel Brunner, Bhavin J. Shastri, Mohammed A. Al Qadasi +147

This roadmap consolidates recent advances while exploring emerging applications, reflecting the remarkable diversity of hardware platforms, neuromorphic concepts, and implementatio…

physics.optics2024

Fully Programmable Spatial Photonic Ising Machine by Focal Plane Division

Daniele Veraldi, Davide Pierangeli, Silvia Gentilini +10

Ising machines are an emerging class of hardware that promises ultrafast and energy-efficient solutions to NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems. Spatial photonic Ising machi…