LPHYS'26.    Program:

Seminar 12: Optical Computing and Neural Networks

Co-chairs:

Optical analogue computing methods, including optical neural networks for artificial intelligence and combinatorial optimization.

Schedule:

  1. Monday, 6 July, 2026
  2. S12.1 (13:30 – 15:30)
    1. 13:30 – 14:00 L.G. Wright (Department of Applied Physics, Yale University, New Haven CT, USA)On the possibility of a virtuous cycle between photonics and computing Abstract 
    2. 14:00 – 14:30 William Renninger (The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, Rochester NY, USA) Offset-diagonal computing for scalable and sparsity-enabled optical processors Abstract 
    3. 14:30 – 15:00 B Carpinlioglu, U Tegin (Electric and Electronic Engineering, Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey) Scalable and Energy-efficient Optical Computing Architectures Abstract 
    4. 15:00 – 15:25 DJ Brady (College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson AZ, USA) Integrated optical holographic tensor processors Abstract 
  3. S12.2 (16:00 – 18:00)
    1. 16:00 – 16:25 S S Straupe (Sber Quantum technologies center, Moscow, Russia)Integrated optical tensor processors Abstract 
    2. 16:25 – 16:55 A Singha, K Wang (Department of Physics, McGill University, Montréal, Canada) Fisher-Aware Training of Multiplane Light Conversion for Optical Parameter Estimation Abstract 
    3. 16:55 – 17:25 MG Suh (PHI Lab, NTT Research, Sunnyvale, CA, USA) WDM and Hyperspectral MAC: Pathways to Optical Advantage in Short-Reach Systems Abstract 
  4. Tuesday, 7 July, 2026
  5. S12.3 (13:30 – 15:30)
    1. 13:30 – 13:55 F Cardano (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy)Free-space photonic circuits for spatially structured light Abstract 
    2. 13:55 – 14:15 Z G Cheng (College of Integrated Circuits & Micro-Nano Electronics, Fudan University, Shanghai, China) Photonic in-memory computing Abstract 
    3. 14:15 – 14:40 Y Li (Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca NY, USA; Sorbonne Université, CNRS, ENS-Université PSL, Collège de France, 4 Place Jussieu, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Paris, France), N A Behrens, F Monticone (Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca NY, USA) Information-Theoretic Interpretation of Metaoptic Frontends for Efficient Design and Implementation Abstract 
    4. 14:40 – 15:00 M Hary, A Skalli, L Cardenas-Razo, A Ermolaev (Département d’Optique P. M. Duffieux, FEMTO-ST Institute, UMR CNRS 6174, Besançon, France), M Marciniak, M Gebski, J. Lott (Institute of Physics, Lodz University of technology, Wólczańska 217/22190-005 Łódź, Poland, Lodz, Poland), G Genty (Department of Physics, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland), T Czyszanowski2 (Institute of Physics, Lodz University of technology, Wólczańska 217/22190-005 Łódź, Poland, Lodz, Poland), J.M Dudley, D Brunner (Département d’Optique P. M. Duffieux, FEMTO-ST Institute, UMR CNRS 6174, Besançon, France) Principles and metrics of photonic learning machines Abstract 
  6. Wednesday, 8 July, 2026
  7. S12.4 (13:30 – 15:30)
    1. 13:30 – 14:00 A. Marandi (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena CA, USA)Nonlinear Resonator Networks: From Complex Optics to Advanced Computing and Sensing Abstract 
    2. 14:00 – 14:30 HT Takesue (NTT, Inc., Kanagawa, Japan) Evaluation of coherent Ising machine as an associative memory Abstract 
    3. 14:30 – 15:00 H CAO (Yale University, New Haven CT, USA) Optical kernel machine with programmable nonlinearity Abstract