Enabling Scalable Photonic Tensor Cores with Polarization-Domain Photonic Computing

2025/01/31 by Shafiee, Amin, Chen, Linhong, Pasricha, Sudeep +2
#Emerging Technologies (cs.ET) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Physical sciences #Optics (physics.optics)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2501.18886

Abstract

We present a silicon-photonic tensor core using 2D ferroelectric materials to enable wavelength- and polarization-domain computing. Results, based on experimentally characterized material properties, show up to 83% improvement in computation accuracy compared to coherent networks.

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