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Title: Analog optical computing primitives in silicon photonics

Abstract

Optical computing accelerators help alleviate bandwidth and power consumption bottlenecks in electronics. In this paper, we show an approach to implementing logarithmic-type analog co-processors in silicon photonics and use it to perform the exponentiation operation and the recovery of a signal in the presence of multiplicative distortion. Finally, the function is realized by exploiting nonlinear-absorption-enhanced Raman amplification saturation in a silicon waveguide.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [1]
  1. Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States). Electrical Engineering Dept.
  2. Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States). Electrical Engineering Dept.; Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States); Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE; Office of Naval Research (ONR) (United States); USDOD
OSTI Identifier:
1258515
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1241438
Report Number(s):
LLNL-JRNL-679665
Journal ID: ISSN 0146-9592
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC52-07NA27344
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Optics Letters
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 41; Journal Issue: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 0146-9592
Publisher:
Optical Society of America (OSA)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; 42 ENGINEERING; analog optical signal processing; optics in computing; neural networks; nonlinear optics; integrated optics

Citation Formats

Jiang, Yunshan, DeVore, Peter T. S., and Jalali, Bahram. Analog optical computing primitives in silicon photonics. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.1364/OL.41.001273.
Jiang, Yunshan, DeVore, Peter T. S., & Jalali, Bahram. Analog optical computing primitives in silicon photonics. United States. https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.41.001273
Jiang, Yunshan, DeVore, Peter T. S., and Jalali, Bahram. Tue . "Analog optical computing primitives in silicon photonics". United States. https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.41.001273. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1258515.
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abstractNote = {Optical computing accelerators help alleviate bandwidth and power consumption bottlenecks in electronics. In this paper, we show an approach to implementing logarithmic-type analog co-processors in silicon photonics and use it to perform the exponentiation operation and the recovery of a signal in the presence of multiplicative distortion. Finally, the function is realized by exploiting nonlinear-absorption-enhanced Raman amplification saturation in a silicon waveguide.},
doi = {10.1364/OL.41.001273},
journal = {Optics Letters},
number = 6,
volume = 41,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Mar 15 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Tue Mar 15 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}

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