Analog optical computing primitives in silicon photonics

Opt Lett. 2016 Mar 15;41(6):1273-6. doi: 10.1364/OL.41.001273.

Abstract

Optical computing accelerators help alleviate bandwidth and power consumption bottlenecks in electronics. 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. The function is realized by exploiting nonlinear-absorption-enhanced Raman amplification saturation in a silicon waveguide.

Publication types

  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.