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Area of Science:

Photonics and Materials Science
Integrated Optics and Metamaterials

Background:

Silicon photonics is crucial for optical computing.
Enhancing nonlinear optical properties in silicon is key for advanced photonic devices.

Purpose of the Study:

To enhance the nonlinear optical coefficient of silicon waveguides.
To explore the application of metamaterial-enhanced silicon waveguides in all-optical neural networks.

Main Methods:

Incorporation of a metamaterial structure into a silicon waveguide.
Experimental measurement of nonlinear optical coefficients.
Implementation of a metamaterial waveguide for handwritten character recognition.

Main Results:

Achieved a 1.2 × 10^3 times higher two-photon absorption coefficient compared to original silicon.
Demonstrated a metamaterial waveguide-based nonlinear optical activation function.
Attained 98.36% inference accuracy in character recognition, comparable to ReLU.

Conclusions:

Metamaterial integration significantly enhances silicon's nonlinear optical properties.
The developed metamaterial waveguide serves as an effective nonlinear optical activation function.
This approach paves the way for power-efficient and compact all-optical neural networks.