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2021
Prospects and applications of photonic neural networks
[Invited Review] Chaoran Huang, Volker J. Sorger, Mario Miscuglio, Mohammed Al-Qadasi, Avilash Mukherjee, Lutz Lampe, Mitchell Nichols, Alexander N. Tait, Thomas Ferreira de Lima, Bicky A. Marquez, Jiahui Wang, Lukas Chrostowski, Mable P. Fok, Daniel Brunner, Shanhui Fan, Sudip Shekhar, Paul R. Prucnal & Bhavin J. Shastri, Advances in Physics: X, 7:1, 1981155, DOI: 10.1080/23746149.2021.1981155 [Link]
Silicon photonic-electronic neural network for fibre nonlinearity compensation
Chaoran Huang, Shinsuke Fujisawa, Thomas Ferreira de Lima, Alexander N Tait, Eric C Blow, Yue Tian, Simon Bilodeau, Aashu Jha, Hsuan-Tung Peng, Hussam G Batshon, Bhavin J Shastri, Yoshihisa Inada, Ting Wang, Paul R Prucnal, A silicon photonic–electronic neural network for fibre nonlinearity compensation. Nature Electronics 4, 837–844 (2021). doi.org/10.1038/s41928-021-00661-2. [Link]
Weight Pruning Techniques towards Photonic Implementation of Nonlinear Impairment Compensation using Neural Networks
[Invited] Shinsuke Fujisawa, Fatih Yaman, Hussam G Batshon, Masaaki Tanio, Naoto Ishii, Chaoran Huang, Thomas Ferreira de Lima, Yoshihisa Inada, Paul Prucnal, Norifumi Kamiya, Ting Wang, “Weight Pruning Techniques towards Photonic Implementation of Nonlinear Impairment Compensation using Neural Networks” in Journal of Lightwave Technology, doi: 10.1109/JLT.2021.3117609. [Link]
Photonic spiking neural networks and CMOS-compatible graphene-on-silicon spiking neurons
Aashu Jha*, Chaoran Huang*, Hsuan-Tung Peng, Bhavin Shastri, Paul R Prucnal [Link]
System and method for programmable nonlinear silicon photonic circuit (US Patent)
Chaoran Huang, Thomas Ferreira De Lima, Alexander Tait, Siamak Abbaslou, Aashu Jha, Bhavin Shastri, Paul R Prucnal, Mitchell A Nahmias, Hsuan-Tung Peng [Link]
Secure Analysis of Optical Steganography With Spectral Signature Measurement
Ben Wu, Ying Tang, Chenxi Qiu, Yuekai Huang, Chaoran Huang, Paul R Prucnal in IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 33, no. 17, pp. 971-974, 1 Sept.1, 2021, doi: 10.1109/LPT.2021.3101399. [Link]
A Photonic-Circuits-Inspired Compact Network: Toward Real-Time Wireless Signal Classification at the Edge
Hsuan-Tung Peng, Joshua Lederman, Lei Xu, Thomas Ferreira de Lima, Chaoran Huang, Bhavin Shastri, David Rosenbluth, Paul Prucnal [Link]
Silicon photonic neural network for fiber nonlinearity impairment compensation
C. Huang, S. Fujisawa, T. F. de Lima, A. N. Tait, E. Blow, Y. Tian, S. Bilodeau, A. Jha, F. Yaman, Batshon, H.-T. Peng, Y. Inada, B. Shastri, T. Wang, and P. R. Prucnal. (submitted)
Prospects and applications of photonic neural networks
[Invited] Chaoran Huang, Volker J Sorger, Mario Miscuglio, Mohammed Al-Qadasi, Avilash Mukherjee, Sudip Shekhar, Lukas Chrostowski, Lutz Lampe, Mitchell Nichols, Mable P Fok, Daniel Brunner, Alexander N Tait, Thomas Ferreira de Lima, Bicky A Marquez, Paul R Prucnal, Bhavin J Shastri, arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.09943, 2021 [link]
Neuromorphic silicon photonics for optical communication systems
[invited] C. Huang, T. F. de Lima, A. N. Tait, E. Blow, S. Bilodeau, A. Jha, B. Shastri, and P. R. Prucnal, in Optical Fiber CommunicationConference. Optical Society of America, 2021 [link
Programmable, high-speed all-optical nonlinear activation functions for neuromorphic photonics
J. Aashu, C. Huang, and P. R. Prucnal, in Optical Fiber CommunicationConference (OFC). OSA, 2021. [link]
Neuromorphic silicon photonicsfor artificial intelligence
B. A. Marquez, C. Huang, P. R. Prucnal, and B. J. Shastri, in Silicon Photonics IV. Springer, 2021, pp. 417–447 [link]
Microring weight banks control beyond 8.5-bits accuracy
W. Zhang, C. Huang, S. Bilodeau, A. Jha, T. F. De Lima, and P. Prucnal, arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.01164, 2021 [link]
A laser spiking neuron in a photonic integrated circuit
M. A. Nahmias, H.-T. Peng, T. F. de Lima, C. Huang, A. N. Tait, B. J. Shastri, and P. R. Prucnal, arXiv preprint arXiv: arXiv:2012.08516 [link]
2020
Blind source separation with integrated photonics and reduced dimensional statistics
P. Y. Ma, A. N. Tait, W. Zhang, E. A. Karahan, T. F. de Lima, C. Huang, B. J. Shastri, and P. R. Prucnal, Optics Letters, vol. 45, no. 23, pp. 6494–6497, 2020 [Link]
Primer on silicon neuromorphic photonic processors: architecture and compiler
Thomas Ferreira de Lima, Alexander N Tait, Armin Mehrabian, Mitchell A Nahmias, Chaoran Huang, Hsuan-Tung Peng, Bicky A Marquez, Mario Miscuglio, Tarek El-Ghazawi, Volker J Sorger, Bhavin J Shastri, Paul R Prucnal, Nanophotonics, vol. 9, no. 13, pp. 4055–4073, 2020 [Link]
On-chip programmable nonlinear optical signal processor and its applications
[Invited] C. Huang, A. Jha, T. F. de Lima, A. Tait, B. J. Shastri, and P. Prucnal, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 2020. [Link]
Demonstration of scalable microring weight bank control for large-scale photonic integrated circuits
C. Huang, S. Bilodeau, T. Ferreira de Lima, A. N. Tait, P. Y. Ma, E. C. Blow, A. Jha, H.-T. Peng, B. J. Shastri, and P. R. Prucnal, APL Photonics, vol. 5, no. 4, p. 040803, 2020. [Link]
High-speed all-optical thresholding via carrier lifetime tunability
A. Jha, C. Huang, T. F. de Lima, and P. R. Prucnal, Optics Letters, vol. 45, no. 8, pp. 2287–2290, 2020. [Link]
Lateral bipolar junction transistor on a silicon photonics platform
A. Jha, T. F. de Lima, H. Saeidi, S. Bilodeau, A. N. Tait, , C. Huang, S. Abbaslou, B. Shastri, and P. R. Prucnal, Optics Express, vol. 28, no. 8, pp. 11 692–11 704, 2020. [Link]
Photonic independent component analysis using an on-chip microring weight bank
Y. Ma, A. N. Tait, T. F. de Lima, C. Huang, B. J. Shastri, and P. R. Prucnal, Optics Express, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 1827–1844, 2020 [Link]
Neuromorphic photonics: Current status and challenges
[Invited] P. R. Prucnal, T. F. de Lima, C. Huang, B. A. Marquez, and B. J. Shastri, in 2020 European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC). IEEE, 2020, pp. 1–4. [Link]
Demonstration of photonic neural network for fiber nonlinearity compensation in long-haul transmission systems
[Postdeadline] C. Huang, S. Fujisawa, T. F. de Lima, A. N. Tait, E. Blow, Y. Tian, S. Bilodeau, A. Jha, F. Yaman, Batshon, H.-T. Peng, Y. Inada, B. Shastri, T. Wang, and P. R. Prucnal, in Optical Fiber Communication Conference. Optical Society of America, 2020, pp. Th4C–6. [Link]
Demonstration of multi-channel feedback control for on-chip microring weight banks
C. Huang, S. Bilodeau, T. F. de Lima, A. N. Tait, P. Y. Ma, E. C. Blow, A. Jha, H.-T. Peng, B. J. Shastri, and P. R. Prucnal, in Optical Fiber Communication Conference. Optical Society of America, 2020, pp. W3A–7. [Link]
Programmable fast all-optical thresholder
A. Jha, C. Huang, T. F. de Lima, and P. R. Prucnal, in Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO). Optical Society of America, 2020. [Link]
Silicon photonic weights for microwave photonic canceller
E. C. Blow, C. Huang, Z. Liu, S. J. Markoff, and P. R. Prucnal, in Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO). Optical Society of America, 2020 [Link]
Advances in neuromorphic photonics (conference presentation)
B. Shastri, T. F. de Lima, A. Tait, B. Marquez, H. Peng, C. Huang, V. Sorger, and P. Prucnal, in Integrated Optics: Devices, Materials, and Technologies XXIV, vol. 11283. International Society for Optics and Photonics, 2020, p. 1128314 
Real-time operation of silicon photonic neurons
T. F. de Lima, C. Huang, S. Bilodeau, A. N. Tait, H.-T. Peng, P. Y. Ma, E. C. Blow, B. J. Shastri, and P. Prucnal, in Optical Fiber Communication Conference. Optical Society of America, 2020, pp. M2K–4. [link]