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most cited11 TeraFLOPs per second photonic convolutional accelerator for deep learning optical neural networks

1.5k citations · 8.1k across the 37 of their papers we have counts for

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37 papers

physics.optics2026

Reconfigurable microwave photonic Fano filters based on optical Kerr microcombs

Qi Zou, Jiayang Wu, Yang Sun +9

Microwave photonic (MWP) Fano filters, featuring asymmetric filter shapes that enable steep spectral transitions, are attractive for high bandwidth microwave signal processing such…

physics.optics2024★ 1 cited

Ultra-wideband integrated microwave photonic multi-parameter measurement system on thin-film lithium niobate

Yong Zheng, Zhen Han, LiHeng Wang +13

Research on microwave signal measurement techniques is risen, driven by the expanding urgent demands of wireless communication, global positioning systems, remote sensing and 6G ne…

physics.optics2024★ 57 cited

Photonic real time video image signal processor at 17Tb/s based on a Kerr microcomb

Mengxi Tan, Xingyuan Xu, Andreas Boes +8

Signal processing has become central to many fields, from coherent optical telecommunications, where it is used to compensate signal impairments, to video image processing. Image p…

physics.optics2022★ 18 cited

Spatio-temporal isolator in lithium niobate on insulator

Haijin Huang, Armandas Balcytis, Aditya Dubey +5

In this contribution, we simulate, design, and experimentally demonstrate an integrated optical isolator based on spatiotemporal modulation in the thin-film lithium niobate on insu…

physics.optics2022★ 27 cited

Recirculating Light Phase Modulator

Haijin Huang, Xu Han, Armandas Balčytis +7

High efficiency and a compact footprint are desired properties for electro-optic modulators. In this paper, we propose, theoretically investigate and experimentally demonstrate a r…

physics.app-ph2021★ 215 cited

Integral order photonic RF and microwave signal processors based on soliton crystal Kerr micro-combs

Mengxi Tan, Xingyuan Xu, David J. Moss

Soliton crystal micro-combs are powerful tools as sources of multiple wavelength channels for radio frequency (RF) signal processing. They offer a compact device footprint, large n…

physics.app-ph2021★ 247 cited

Highly tunable broadband RF photonic fractional Hilbert transformer based on a Kerr soliton crystal microcomb source

Mengxi Tan, Xingyuan Xu, David J. Moss

We demonstrate an RF photonic fractional Hilbert transformer based on an integrated Kerr micro-comb source featuring a record low free spectral range of 48.9 GHz, yielding 75 micro…

physics.app-ph2021★ 1 cited

Broadband photonic RF channelizer with a Kerr soliton crystal micro-comb

Mengxi Tan, Xingyuan Xu, David J. Moss

We report a 92 channel RF channelizer based on a 48.9 GHz integrated micro-comb that operates via soliton crystals, together with a passive high-Q ring resonator that acts as a per…

cs.NE2020★ 1.5k cited

11 TeraFLOPs per second photonic convolutional accelerator for deep learning optical neural networks

Xingyuan Xu, Mengxi Tan, Bill Corcoran +9

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs), inspired by biological visual cortex systems, are a powerful category of artificial neural networks that can extract the hierarchical features…

physics.app-ph2020★ 1 cited

Reconfigurable photonic RF filters based on integrated Kerr frequency comb sources

Xingyuan Xu, Mengxi Tan, Jiayang Wu +6

We demonstrate two categories of photonic radio frequency (RF) filters based on integrated optical micro-combs. The first one is based on the transversal filtering structure and th…

physics.app-ph2020★ 1 cited

Reconfigurable fractional microwave signal processor based on a microcomb

Mengxi Tan, Xingyuan Xu, Jiayang Wu +6

We propose and demonstrate reconfigurable fractional microwave signal processing based on an integrated Kerr optical microcomb. We achieve two forms of microwave signal processing…

physics.app-ph2020

Arbitrary waveform generator for microwave and radio frequencies based on photonics with an integrated 49GHz Kerr micro-comb

Mengxi Tan, Xingyuan Xu, Andreas Boes +8

We report a photonic-based radio frequency (RF) arbitrary waveform generator (AWG) using a soliton crystal micro-comb source with a free spectral range (FSR) of 48.9 GHz. The comb…

physics.app-ph2020★ 379 cited

Photonic RF channelizer based on a 90 wavelength optical soliton crystal 49GHz Kerr microcomb

Xingyuan Xu, Mengxi Tan, Jiayang Wu +7

We report a broadband radio frequency (RF) channelizer with up to 92 channels using a coherent microcomb source. A soliton crystal microcomb, generated by a 49 GHz micro-ring reson…

physics.app-ph2020★ 332 cited

Photonic radio frequency and microwave integration based on a multi-wavelength 49GHz Kerr microcomb source

Xingyuan Xu, Mengxi Tan, Jiayang Wu +8

We demonstrate a photonic RF integrator based on an integrated soliton crystal microcomb source. By multicasting and progressively delaying the input RF signal using a transversal…

physics.optics2020★ 1 cited

Single photonic perceptron based on a soliton crystal Kerr microcomb for high-speed, scalable, optical neural networks

Xingyuan Xu, Mengxi Tan, Bill Corcoran +9

Optical artificial neural networks (ONNs), analog computing hardware tailored for machine learning, have significant potential for ultra-high computing speed and energy efficiency.…

physics.app-ph2020★ 479 cited

Optical data transmission at 44Tb/s and 10 bits/s/Hz over the C-band with standard fibre and a single micro-comb source

Bill Corcoran, Mengxi Tan, Xingyuan Xu +8

Micro-combs [1 - 4], optical frequency combs generated by integrated micro-cavity resonators, offer the full potential of their bulk counterparts [5,6], but in an integrated footpr…

physics.app-ph2020★ 418 cited

Optical Kerr soliton crystal microcomb source for RF photonic fractional differentiation

Mengxi Tan, Xingyuan Xu, Bill Corcoran +8

We report a photonic radio frequency (RF) fractional differentiator based on an integrated Kerr micro-comb source. The micro-comb source has a free spectral range (FSR) of 49 GHz,…

physics.app-ph2019★ 437 cited

Phase-encoded RF signal generation based on an integrated 49GHz micro-comb optical source

Xingyuan Xu, Mengxi Tan, Jiayang Wu +8

We demonstrate photonic RF phase encoding based on an integrated micro-comb source. By assembling single-cycle Gaussian pulse replicas using a transversal filtering structure, phas…

physics.app-ph2019★ 440 cited

Microwave photonic fractional Hilbert transformer with an integrated optical soliton crystal micro-comb

Mengxi Tan, Xingyuan Xu, Bill Corcoran +8

We report a photonic microwave and RF fractional Hilbert transformer based on an integrated Kerr micro-comb source. The micro-comb source has a free spectral range (FSR) of 50GHz,…

physics.app-ph2019★ 420 cited

Microwave Q-band oscillator at 49GHz for broadband frequency conversion based on a Kerr optical soliton crystal micro-comb

Xingyuan Xu, Jiayang Wu, Mengxi Tan +6

We report a broadband microwave frequency converter based on a coherent Kerr optical micro-comb generated by an integrated micro-ring resonator. The coherent micro-comb displays fe…

physics.optics2019★ 68 cited

Improved second harmonic performance in periodically poled LNOI waveguides through engineering of lateral leakage

Andreas Boes, Lin Chang, Markus Knoerzer +4

In this contribution we investigate the impact of lateral leakage for linear and nonlinear optical waveguides in lithium niobate on insulator (LNOI). Silicon nitride (SiN) loaded a…

physics.app-ph2019★ 482 cited

Microwave photonic filters via radio frequency bandwidth scaling based on soliton crystal optical micro-combs

Xingyuan Xu, Mengxi Tan, Jiayang Wu +6

We demonstrate high-resolution photonic RF filters using an RF bandwidth scaling approach based on integrated Kerr optical micro-combs. By employing both an active nonlinear micro-…

physics.optics2018★ 60 cited

Ridge Resonance: A new Resonance Phenomenon for Silicon Photonics Harnessing Bound States in the Continuum

Thach G. Nguyen, Guanghui Ren, Steffen Schoenhardt +3

We present a new resonant behavior based on bound states in the continuum in a guided wave silicon platform. The continuum has the form of a collimated beam of light which is confi…

physics.app-ph2018★ 400 cited

Tunable RF and microwave photonic sideband generator based on cascaded 49GHz and 200GHz integrated ring resonators

Xingyuan Xu, Jiayang Wu, Linnan Jia +7

We demonstrate a continuously RF tunable orthogonally polarized optical single sideband (OP-OSSB) generator based on dual cascaded micro-ring resonators. By splitting the input dou…