6 papers
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…
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…
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…
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…
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-…
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…