3 papers
physics.optics2026
Ion-Implanted Silicon Nanoregions Enable Ultra-Low-Loss Trimming of Cladded Photonic Integrated Circuits
Zhongyu Tang, Shabnam Taheriniya, Seongmin Jo +8
Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) have emerged as a key platform for information processing, including optical communication and computing. As PIC complexity increases, fabricati…
physics.optics2026
Voltage-Programmable Photon Statistics Using a High-Extinction Thin-film Lithium Niobate Modulator
Julian Rasmus Bankwitz, Ravi Pradip, Julius Römer +9
Controlling the statistical properties of light, namely the fluctuations in photon arrival, entropy and number, is essential for both classical and quantum photonics. While integra…
physics.app-ph2026
Probabilistic Photonic Computing
Frank Brückerhoff-Plückelmann, Anna P. Ovvyan, Akhil Varri +8
Probabilistic computing excels in approximating combinatorial problems and modelling uncertainty. However, using conventional deterministic hardware for probabilistic models is cha…