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20242026
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6 papers

physics.optics2026

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…

physics.optics2026

ReDON: Recurrent Diffractive Optical Neural Processor with Reconfigurable Self-Modulated Nonlinearity

Ziang Yin, Qi Jing, Raktim Sarma +3

Diffractive optical neural networks (DONNs) have demonstrated unparalleled energy efficiency and parallelism by processing information directly in the optical domain. However, thei…

cs.ET2026

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…

physics.optics2025

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…

physics.optics2025

MAPS: Multi-Fidelity AI-Augmented Photonic Simulation and Inverse Design Infrastructure

Pingchuan Ma, Zhengqi Gao, Meng Zhang +5

Inverse design has emerged as a transformative approach for photonic device optimization, enabling the exploration of high-dimensional, non-intuitive design spaces to create ultra-…

cs.ET2024

ADEPT-Z: Zero-Shot Automated Circuit Topology Search for Pareto-Optimal Photonic Tensor Cores

Ziyang Jiang, Pingchuan Ma, Meng Zhang +2

Photonic tensor cores (PTCs) are essential building blocks for optical artificial intelligence (AI) accelerators based on programmable photonic integrated circuits. Most PTC design…