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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 12, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-20365-z
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- ONR MURI [N00014-17-1-2661]
- National Science Foundation [NNCI-1542101, 1337840, 0335765]
- National Institutes of Health
- Clean Energy Institute
- Washington Research Foundation
- M. J. Murdock Charitable Trust
- Altatech
- ClassOne Technology
- GCE Market
- SPTS
- Molecular Engineering & Sciences Institute
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Neuromorphic photonics is a promising hardware accelerator with potential speed and energy advantages in machine learning algorithms, particularly in analog computing tasks. Integration of nonvolatile phase-change materials enables essential programming and computing capabilities for on-chip optical computing, demonstrating high precision in waveguide spatial modes control for efficient MVM computation in neural networks.
Neuromorphic photonics has recently emerged as a promising hardware accelerator, with significant potential speed and energy advantages over digital electronics for machine learning algorithms, such as neural networks of various types. Integrated photonic networks are particularly powerful in performing analog computing of matrix-vector multiplication (MVM) as they afford unparalleled speed and bandwidth density for data transmission. Incorporating nonvolatile phase-change materials in integrated photonic devices enables indispensable programming and in-memory computing capabilities for on-chip optical computing. Here, we demonstrate a multimode photonic computing core consisting of an array of programable mode converters based on on-waveguide metasurfaces made of phase-change materials. The programmable converters utilize the refractive index change of the phase-change material Ge2Sb2Te5 during phase transition to control the waveguide spatial modes with a very high precision of up to 64 levels in modal contrast. This contrast is used to represent the matrix elements, with 6-bit resolution and both positive and negative values, to perform MVM computation in neural network algorithms. We demonstrate a prototypical optical convolutional neural network that can perform image processing and recognition tasks with high accuracy. With a broad operation bandwidth and a compact device footprint, the demonstrated multimode photonic core is promising toward large-scale photonic neural networks with ultrahigh computation throughputs. Integrated optical computing requires programmable photonic and nonlinear elements. The authors demonstrate a phase-change metasurface mode converter, which can be programmed to control the waveguide mode contrast, and build an optical convolutional neural network to perform image processing tasks.
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