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Chao Luan¹, Ronald Davis Iii², Zaijun Chen³

¹Research Laboratory of Electronics, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA. chaoluan@mit.edu.

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A novel optical neural network (ONN) processor uses hyper-multiplexing for high parallelism and energy efficiency. This scalable design accelerates deep learning tasks with ultra-low optical energy consumption, enabling next-generation computing.

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Area of Science:

Optoelectronics and Photonics
Artificial Intelligence Hardware
Computer Engineering

Background:

Growing data demands necessitate high-speed, energy-efficient computing hardware.
Analog optical neural network (ONN) processors offer advantages in bandwidth and power consumption.
Existing ONN architectures face limitations in computational parallelism and scalability.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce a novel spatial-wavelength-temporal hyper-multiplexed ONN processor.
To address the limitations of current ONN processors in terms of parallelism and scalability.
To enable large-scale, high-performance optical tensor processing for deep learning.

Main Methods:

Development of a hyper-multiplexed ONN architecture based on parallel diffractive beam routing.
Demonstration of a 16x16 parallel diffractive beam routing system.
Implementation of single-shot matrix-matrix multiplication for accelerating neural networks.

Main Results:

Achieved a large-scale (16x16-by-16x16) optical tensor processor with high parallelism (4096 MACs/shot) and high speed (2 Gsa/s).
Demonstrated benchmark image recognition using convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and deep neural networks (DNNs) in the optical domain.
Operated with ultra-low optical energy consumption (≈20 attojoules/MAC) at 96.4% classification accuracy.

Conclusions:

The proposed hyper-multiplexed ONN processor architecture is feasible for large-scale implementation.
The system supports broad spectral and spatial bandwidths, enabling significant advancements in optical computing.
This technology paves the way for highly efficient, large-scale optical computing for next-generation deep learning applications.