Search Results for author: Shanhui Fan

Found 14 papers, 10 papers with code

Deterministic photonic quantum computation in a synthetic time dimension

no code implementations19 Jan 2021 Ben Bartlett, Avik Dutt, Shanhui Fan

Photonics offers unique advantages as a substrate for quantum information processing, but imposes fundamental scalability challenges.

Quantum Physics Optics

Inverse design of photonic crystals through automatic differentiation

1 code implementation1 Mar 2020 Momchil Minkov, Ian A. D. Williamson, Lucio C. Andreani, Dario Gerace, Beicheng Lou, Alex Y. Song, Tyler W. Hughes, Shanhui Fan

Here, we overcome this through the use of automatic differentiation, which is a generalization of the adjoint variable method to arbitrary computational graphs.

Optics Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science Applied Physics Computational Physics

Fundamental bounds for scattering from absorptionless electromagnetic structures

1 code implementation1 Mar 2020 Rahul Trivedi, Guillermo Angeris, Logan Su, Stephen Boyd, Shanhui Fan, Jelena Vuckovic

We illustrate our bounding procedure by studying limits on the scattering cross-sections of dielectric and metallic particles in the absence of material losses.

Optics

Universal programmable photonic architecture for quantum information processing

1 code implementation22 Oct 2019 Ben Bartlett, Shanhui Fan

We present a photonic integrated circuit architecture for a quantum programmable gate array (QPGA) capable of preparing arbitrary quantum states and operators.

Quantum Physics Optics

Parallel fault-tolerant programming of an arbitrary feedforward photonic network

1 code implementation11 Sep 2019 Sunil Pai, Ian A. D. Williamson, Tyler W. Hughes, Momchil Minkov, Olav Solgaard, Shanhui Fan, David A. B. Miller

Reconfigurable photonic mesh networks of tunable beamsplitter nodes can linearly transform $N$-dimensional vectors representing input modal amplitudes of light for applications such as energy-efficient machine learning hardware, quantum information processing, and mode demultiplexing.

Forward-Mode Differentiation of Maxwell's Equations

2 code implementations28 Aug 2019 Tyler W. Hughes, Ian A. D. Williamson, Momchil Minkov, Shanhui Fan

We present a previously unexplored forward-mode differentiation method for Maxwell's equations, with applications in the field of sensitivity analysis.

Optics Numerical Analysis Numerical Analysis Computational Physics

Wave Physics as an Analog Recurrent Neural Network

1 code implementation29 Apr 2019 Tyler W. Hughes, Ian A. D. Williamson, Momchil Minkov, Shanhui Fan

These findings pave the way for a new class of analog machine learning platforms, capable of fast and efficient processing of information in its native domain.

BIG-bench Machine Learning Vowel Classification

Direct Object Recognition Without Line-of-Sight Using Optical Coherence

no code implementations CVPR 2019 Xin Lei, Liangyu He, Yixuan Tan, Ken Xingze Wang, Xinggang Wang, Yihan Du, Shanhui Fan, Zongfu Yu

Visual object recognition under situations in which the direct line-of-sight is blocked, such as when it is occluded around the corner, is of practical importance in a wide range of applications.

Object Object Recognition

Reprogrammable Electro-Optic Nonlinear Activation Functions for Optical Neural Networks

4 code implementations12 Mar 2019 Ian A. D. Williamson, Tyler W. Hughes, Momchil Minkov, Ben Bartlett, Sunil Pai, Shanhui Fan

We introduce an electro-optic hardware platform for nonlinear activation functions in optical neural networks.

Reconfigurable Photonic Circuit for Controlled Power Delivery to Laser-Driven Accelerators on a Chip

1 code implementation26 Feb 2019 Tyler W. Hughes, R. Joel England, Shanhui Fan

Dielectric laser acceleration (DLA) represents a promising approach to building miniature particle accelerators on a chip.

Optics Accelerator Physics Applied Physics

Photon blockade in weakly-driven cavity QED systems with many emitters

1 code implementation13 Jan 2019 Rahul Trivedi, Marina Radulaski, Kevin A. Fischer, Shanhui Fan, Jelena Vučković

We use the scattering matrix formalism to analyze photon blockade in coherently-driven CQED systems with a weak drive.

Quantum Physics

Adjoint method and inverse design for nonlinear nanophotonic devices

1 code implementation3 Nov 2018 Tyler W. Hughes, Momchil Minkov, Ian A. D. Williamson, Shanhui Fan

Here, we present an extension of this method to modeling nonlinear devices in the frequency domain, with the nonlinear response directly included in the gradient computation.

Optics Applied Physics Computational Physics

Training of photonic neural networks through in situ backpropagation

no code implementations25 May 2018 Tyler W. Hughes, Momchil Minkov, Yu Shi, Shanhui Fan

Recently, integrated optics has gained interest as a hardware platform for implementing machine learning algorithms.

BIG-bench Machine Learning

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