Lightmatter Updated 2025-07-16
It was founded by some of the authors of the influential paper Deep learning with coherent nanophotonic circuits.
Optical computing bibliography Created 2025-07-16 Updated 2025-07-16
- 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.
Silicon photonics Updated 2025-07-16
- 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
- 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)
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