Optical Computing on Photonic Integrated Circuits

The advancement of photonic integrated circuits (PICs) brings new opportunities for optical computing. Optical computing, as a promising alternative to traditional CMOS computing, has great potentials to offer ultra-high speed and low-power in information processing and communications. This seminar will discuss some recent efforts and results on optical computing on PICs, including optical adder/multiplier designs, optical logic synthesis, and optical neural network. The advantages, limitations, and possible research directions will be discussed.