3 papers
physics.optics2026
Dynamically Reconfigurable Optical Skyrmions Enabled by a Silicon Microring Optical Phased Array for Robust Free-Space Communication
Zili Cai, Tian Zhang, Qi Chen +3
Optical skyrmions offer a robust vectorial information degree of freedom for free-space communication, but practical deployment requires a compact platform capable of active topolo…
cs.LG2025
Efficient training for large-scale optical neural network using an evolutionary strategy and attention pruning
Zhiwei Yang, Zeyang Fan, Yihang Lai +4
MZI-based block optical neural networks (BONNs), which can achieve large-scale network models, have increasingly drawn attentions. However, the robustness of the current training a…
physics.optics2025
RoNo: A novel way in generating reconfigurable on-chip nonlinear activation functions
Zili Cai, Tian Zhang, Jian Dai +2
Due to the limitations of Moore's Law and the increasing demand of computing, optical neural network (ONNs) are gradually coming to the stage as an alternative to electrical neural…