Integrated Photonic Activation Functions
Electronic and photonic domains fused — the best of both in a single inference pipeline.
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Electronic and photonic domains fused — the best of both in a single inference pipeline.
What It IS
Technical VisionThe architectural essence — what makes this technology work
A hybrid processor where electronic circuits handle precision-critical operations and photonic circuits handle massively parallel matrix operations. Data converts between electrons and photons at domain boundaries. Two physics, one inference.
Abstract
Optical implementations of ReLU and other activation functions for photonic neural networks, leveraging nonlinear photonic materials.
Visual Essence
A hybrid processor where electronic circuits handle precision-critical operations and photonic circuits handle massively parallel matrix operations. Data converts between electrons and photons at domain boundaries. Two physics, one inference.
Technology Domains
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