Silicon Photonics: The Next Silicon Revolution? by Asianometry (2022)
Source. - youtu.be/29aTqLvRia8?t=714 GlobalFoundries seems to be one of the leaders at the time. E.g. quantum computing company PsiQuantum uses them. Part of this was from acquiring IBM's microelectronics division in 2014.
- youtu.be/t0yj4hBDUsc?t=566 mentions the paper Deep learning with coherent nanophotonic circuits
Running Neural Networks on Meshes of Light by Asianometry (2022)
Source. - youtu.be/t0yj4hBDUsc?t=440 block diagram
- youtu.be/t0yj4hBDUsc?t=456 Lightmatter lightmatter.co/ seems to be using an in-silicon Mach-Zehnder interferometer to do analog matrix multiplication with light. It is an actual analog computer element!
Silicon Photonics for Extreme Computing by Keren Bergman (2017)
Source. - www.forbes.com/councils/forbestechcouncil/2024/09/10/optical-computing-what-it-is-and-why-it-matters/ Optical Computing: What It Is, And Why It Matters (2024) by the CEO of NTT. Cites Deep learning with coherent nanophotonic circuits as a major influence in the field, which is cool.
Paper by the team that went on to found Lightmatter.
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Homepage: www.fluxcomputing.com/
It was founded by some of the authors of the influential paper Deep learning with coherent nanophotonic circuits.
Presented e.g. at youtu.be/t0yj4hBDUsc?t=456 from Video "Silicon Photonics: The Next Silicon Revolution? by Asianometry (2022)".
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- 2023: 1.1m pounds www.uktech.news/deep-tech/lumai-grant-20230215
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Silicon photonics is a technology that leverages silicon-based materials and processes to facilitate the generation, manipulation, and detection of light (photons) for various applications. It combines the advantages of traditional silicon semiconductor manufacturing with photonics, the study of light and its interactions with matter.