Photonic enabled Petascale in-memory computing with Femtojoule energy consumption

Project Information

PHOENICS

Grant agreement ID: 101017237

DOI

10.3030/101017237

Project closed

EC signature date 1 December 2020

Start date 1 January 2021

End date 30 June 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)

Total cost

€ 5 883 191,25

EU contribution

€ 5 883 191,25

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITAET MUENSTER
Germany

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (7)

Report on analogue convolution processing strategy
Plan for Exploitation and Dissemination of Results
Report on performance of ACP devices
Principle description, schematic, and animation of a M by N photonic matrix network to show its scalability to public

Principle description, schematic, and animation of a M by N photonic matrix network to show its scalability to public

Report on the hybrid photonic integration of input modulation unit with 16 channels
Report on fabrication process and performance of a passive M by N photonic matrix network.

Report on fabrication process and performance of a passive M by N photonic matrix network

Report on photonic inter-chip connections

Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes (2)

Launch project website
Cross-disciplinary training session and photonics day panel discussion possibly in next E\PCOS conference in Oxford for topics covering neuromorphic computing platforms and technologies

Open Research Data Pilot (1)

Data Management Plan

Other (1)

Kick-off meeting with all consortium partners

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (39)

Comparing different nonlinearities in readout systems for optical neuromorphic computing networks

Author(s): C. Ma, J. Lambrecht, F. Laporte, X. Yin, J. Dambre, P. Bienstman
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 11(1), 2021, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-03594-0

Varifocal Metalens Using Tunable and Ultralow-loss Dielectrics

Author(s): M. Wang; J. Sang Lee; S. Aggarwal; N. Farmakidis; Y. He; T. Cheng; H. Bhaskaran
Published in: Advanced Science, Issue 10, 2023, ISSN 2198-3844
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/advs.202204899

General design flow for waveguide Bragg gratings

Author(s): Frank Brückerhoff-Plückelmann, Tim Buskasper, Julius Römer, Linus Krämer, Bilal Malik, Liam McRae, Linus Kürpick, Simon Palitza, Carsten Schuck, Wolfram Pernice
Published in: Nanophotonics, Issue 14, 2025, Page(s) 297-304, ISSN 2192-8614
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
DOI: 10.1515/nanoph-2024-0498

Integrated optical memristors

Author(s): N. Youngblood, C. A. Ríos Ocampo, W. H. P. Pernice, H. Bhaskaran
Published in: Nature photonics, Issue 17, 2023, Page(s) 561–572, ISSN 1749-4885
Publisher: Nature Pub. Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41566-023-01217-w

Antimony as a Programmable Element in Integrated Nanophotonics

Author(s): Samarth Aggarwal; Tara Milne; Nikolaos Farmakidis; Johannes Feldmann; Xuan Li; Yu Shu; Zengguang Cheng; Martin Salinga; Wolfram HP Pernice; Harish Bhaskaran
Published in: Nano Letters, Issue 22(9), 2022, Page(s) 3532-3538, ISSN 1530-6992
Publisher: ACS Publications
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c04286

Spatio-spectral control of coherent nanophotonics

Author(s): June Sang Lee, Nikolaos Farmakidis, Samarth Aggarwal, Bowei Dong, Wen Zhou, Wolfram H. P. Pernice, Harish Bhaskaran
Published in: Nanophotonics, Issue 13, 2024, Page(s) 2117-2125, ISSN 2192-8614
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
DOI: 10.1515/nanoph-2023-0651

Fast thermo-optic switching through parity-time symmetry breaking

Author(s): Ravi Pradip, Akhil Varri, Liam McRae, Frank Brückerhoff-Plückelmann, Daniel Wendland, Philipp Lohmann, Rongyang Xu, Anna P. Ovvyan, Shabnam Taheriniya, Wolfram Pernice, Simone Ferrari
Published in: Optics Express, Issue 33, 2025, Page(s) 36100, ISSN 1094-4087
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/oe.567666

Broadband photonic tensor core with integrated ultra-low crosstalk wavelength multiplexers

Author(s): F. Brückerhoff-Plückelmann, J. Feldmann, H. Gehring, W. Zhou, C. D. Wright, H. Bhaskaran, W. Pernice
Published in: Nanophotonics, Issue 11(17), 2022, Page(s) 4063-4072, ISSN 2192-8614
Publisher: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/nanoph-2021-0752

Higher-dimensional processing using a photonic tensor core with continuous-time data

Author(s): Bowei Dong; Samarth Aggarwal; Wen Zhou; Utku Emre Ali; Nikolaos Farmakidis; June Sang Lee; Yuhan He; Xuan Li; Dim-Lee Kwong; C. D. Wright; Wolfram H. P. Pernice; H. Bhaskaran
Published in: Nature Photonics, Issue 17, 2023, Page(s) 1080–1088, ISSN 1749-4893
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41566-023-01313-x

Scalable High-Precision Trimming of Photonic Resonances by Polymer Exposure to Energetic Beams

Author(s): N. Farmakidis; H. Yu; J. S. Lee; J. Feldmann; M. Wang; Y. He; S. Aggarwal; B. Dong; W. H. P. Pernice; H. Bhaskaran
Published in: Nano Letters, Issue 23(11), 2023, Page(s) 4800-4806, ISSN 1530-6992
Publisher: ACS
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c00220

Fully integrated four-channel wavelength-division multiplexed QKD receiver

Author(s): F. Beutel, F. Brückerhoff-Plückelmann, H. Gehring, V. Kovalyuk, P. Zolotov, G. Goltsman, W. H. P. Pernice
Published in: Optica, Issue 9(10), 2022, Page(s) 1121-1130, ISSN 2334-2536
Publisher: The Optical Society
DOI: 10.1364/optica.468982

Scalable and efficient grating couplers on low-index photonic platforms enabled by cryogenic deep silicon etching

Author(s): E. Lomonte, M. Stappers, L. Krämer, W. H.P. Pernice, F. Lenzini
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 14(1), 2024, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-53975-4

Monadic Pavlovian associative learning in a backpropagation-free photonic network

Author(s): J. Y. S. Tan, Z. Cheng, J. Feldmann, X. Li, N. Youngblood, U. E. Ali, C. D. Wright, W. H. P. Pernice, H. Bhaskaran
Published in: Optica, Issue 9(7), 2022, Page(s) pp. 792-802, ISSN 2334-2536
Publisher: OSA
DOI: 10.1364/optica.455864

High-Quality Amorphous Silicon Carbide for Hybrid Photonic Integration Deposited at a Low Temperature

Author(s): B. Lopez-Rodriguez, R. van der Kolk, S. Aggarwal, N. Sharma, Z. Li, D. van der Plaats, T. Scholte, J. Chang, S. Gröblacher, S. F. Pereira, H. Bhaskaran, I. E. Zadeh
Published in: ACS Photonics, Issue 10(10), 2023, ISSN 1520-5126
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.3c00968

Wavelength dimension in waveguide-based photonic reservoir computing

Author(s): E. Gooskens, F. Laporte, C.i Ma, S. Sackesyn, J. Dambre, P. Bienstman
Published in: Optics Express, Issue 30(9), 2022, Page(s) pp. 15634-15647, ISSN 1094-4087
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/oe.455774

Addressing limited weight resolution in a fully optical neuromorphic reservoir computing readout

Author(s): C. Ma, F. Laporte, J. Dambre, P. Bienstman
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 11, 2021, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-82720-4

Efficient self-imaging grating couplers on a lithium-niobate-on-insulator platform at near-visible and telecom wavelengths

Author(s): E. Lomonte, F. Lenzini, W. H. P. Pernice
Published in: Optics Express, Issue 29(13), 2021, ISSN 1094-4087
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/oe.428138

In-memory photonic dot-product engine with electrically programmable weight banks

Author(s): W. Zhou, B. Dong, N. Farmakidis, X. Li, N. Youngblood, K. Huang, Y. He, C. D. Wright, W. H. P. Pernice, H. Bhaskaran
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 14(1), 2023, Page(s) 2887, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-38473-x

System-Level Simulation for Integrated Phase-Change Photonics

Author(s): S. G. C. Carrillo, A. Lugnan, E. Ge-mo, P. Bienstman, W. Pernice, H. Bhaskaran, C. D. Wright
Published in: Journal of Lightwave Technology, Issue 39(20), 2021, Page(s) 6392-6402, ISSN 1558-2213
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/jlt.2021.3099914

Mode Conversion Trimming in Asymmetric Directional Couplers Enabled by Silicon Ion Implantation

Author(s): Rongyang Xu, Shabnam Taheriniya, Akhil Varri, Mark Ulanov, Iurii Konyshev, Linus Krämer, Liam McRae, Falk Leonard Ebert, Julian Rasmus Bankwitz, Xinyu Ma, Simone Ferrari, Harish Bhaskaran, Wolfram H.
Published in: Nano Letters, Issue 24, 2024, Page(s) 10813-10819, ISSN 1530-6984
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.4c02065

Reduced rank photonic computing accelerator

Author(s): S. Aggarwal, B. Dong, J. Feldmann, N. Farmakidis, W. H. P. Pernice, H. Bhaskaran
Published in: Optica, Issue 10(8), 2023, Page(s) pp. 1074-1080, ISSN 2334-2536
Publisher: The Optical Society
DOI: 10.1364/optica.485883

Fabrication-friendly all-optical plasmonically-enhanced integrated phase-change photonic memory device

Author(s): Junchao Song, Joe Pady, Emanuele Gemo, Nikolaos Farmakidis, Harish Bhaskaran, Ivonne Bente, Wolfram H. P. Pernice, C. David Wright
Published in: Optics Express, Issue 33, 2025, Page(s) 52965, ISSN 1094-4087
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/oe.577518

Simulating self-learning in photorefrac-tive optical reservoir computers

Author(s): F. Laporte, J. Dambre, P. Bienstman
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 11(1), 2021, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-81899-w

Efficient mass manufacturing of high-density, ultra-low-loss Si₃N₄ photonic integrated circuits

Author(s): Xinru Ji, Rui Ning Wang, Yang Liu, Johann Riemensberger, Zheru Qiu, Tobias J. Kippenberg
Published in: Optica, Issue 11, 2024, Page(s) 1397, ISSN 2334-2536
Publisher: Optica Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1364/optica.529673

The potential of multidimensional photonic computing

Author(s): Ivonne Bente, Shabnam Taheriniya, Francesco Lenzini, Frank Brückerhoff-Plückelmann, Michael Kues, Harish Bhaskaran, C. David Wright, Wolfram Pernice
Published in: Nature Reviews Physics, Issue 7, 2025, Page(s) 439-450, ISSN 2522-5820
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/s42254-025-00843-3

Towards “smart transceivers” in FPGA-controlled lithium-niobate-on-insulator integrated circuits for edge computing applications

Author(s): J. Rasmus Bankwitz, Jelle Dijkstra, Ravi Pradip, Liam McRae, Emma Lomonte, Francesco Lenzini, and Wolfram H. P. Pernice
Published in: Optical Materials Express, Issue 13(12), 2023, Page(s) pp. 3667-3676, ISSN 2159-3930
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/ome.503340

A large scale photonic matrix processor enabled by charge accumulation

Author(s): F. Brückerhoff-Plückelmann , I. Bente, D. Wendland , J. Feldmann , C. D. Wright , H. Bhaskaran, W. H. P. Pernice
Published in: Nanophotonics, Issue 12(5), 2022, Page(s) 819-825, ISSN 2192-8614
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Science Wise Publishing
DOI: 10.1515/nanoph-2022-0441

All optical tunable RF filter using elemental antimony

Author(s): Samarth Aggarwal, Nikolaos Farmakidis, Bowei Dong, June Sang Lee, Mengyun Wang, Zhiyun Xu, Harish Bhaskaran
Published in: Nanophotonics, Issue 13, 2024, Page(s) 2223-2229, ISSN 2192-8614
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
DOI: 10.1515/nanoph-2023-0654

Scalable non–volatile tuning of photonic computational memories by automated silicon ion implantation

Author(s): A. Varri, S. Taheriniya, F. Brückerhoff-Plückelmann, I. Bente, N. Farmakidis, D. Bernhardt, H. Rösner, M. Kruth, A. Nadzeyka, T. Richter, C. D. Wright, H. Bhaskaran, G. Wilde, W. H. P. Pernice
Published in: Advanced Materials, 2023, ISSN 1521-4095
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/adma.202310596

Probabilistic photonic computing for AI

Author(s): Frank Brückerhoff-Plückelmann, Anna P. Ovvyan, Akhil Varri, Hendrik Borras, Bernhard Klein, Lennart Meyer, C. David Wright, Harish Bhaskaran, Ghazi Sarwat Syed, Abu Sebastian, Holger Fröning, Wolfr
Published in: Nature Computational Science, Issue 5, 2025, Page(s) 377-387, ISSN 2662-8457
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/s43588-025-00800-1

Partial coherence enhances parallelized photonic computing

Author(s): Bowei Dong, Frank Brückerhoff-Plückelmann, Lennart Meyer, Jelle Dijkstra, Ivonne Bente, Daniel Wendland, Akhil Varri, Samarth Aggarwal, Nikolaos Farmakidis, Mengyun Wang, Guoce Yang, June Sang Lee,
Published in: Nature, Issue 632, 2024, Page(s) 55-62, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07590-y

An electroluminescent and tunable cavity-enhanced carbon-nanotube-emitter in the telecom band

Author(s): A. P. Ovvyan, M.-K. L, H. Gehring, F. Beutel, S. Kumar, F. Hennrich, L. Wei, Y. Chen, F. Pyatkov, R. Krupke, W. H. P. Pernice
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 14, 2023, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-39622-y

Probabilistic photonic computing with chaotic light

Author(s): Frank Brückerhoff-Plückelmann, Hendrik Borras, Bernhard Klein, Akhil Varri, Marlon Becker, Jelle Dijkstra, Martin Brückerhoff, C. David Wright, Martin Salinga, Harish Bhaskaran, Benjamin Risse, Hol
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 15, 2024, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-54931-6

Experimental results on nonlinear distortion compensation using photonic reservoir computing with a single set of weights for different wavelengths

Author(s): E. Gooskens, S. Sackesyn, J. Dambre, P. Bienstman
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 13, 2023, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-48816-9

Noise-Resilient Photonic Analog Neural Networks

Author(s): Akhil Varri, Frank Brückerhoff-Plückelmann, Jelle Dijkstra, Daniel Wendland, Rasmus Bankwitz, Apoorv Agnihotri, Wolfram H. P. Pernice
Published in: Journal of Lightwave Technology, Issue 42, 2024, Page(s) 7969-7976, ISSN 0733-8724
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1109/jlt.2024.3433454

An integrated photonics engine for un-supervised correlation detection

Author(s): S. G. Sarwat, F. Brückerhoff-Plückelmann, S. G. C. Carrillo, E. Gemo, J. Feldmann, H. Bhaskaran, C. D. Wright, W. Pernice, A. Sebastian
Published in: Science Advances, Issue 8(22), 2022, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: AAAS
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abn3243

Experimental realization of integrated photonic reservoir computing for nonlinear fiber distortion compensation

Author(s): S. Sackesyn, C. Ma, J. Dambre, P. Bienstman
Published in: Optics Express, Issue 29(20), 2021, Page(s) 30991-30997, ISSN 1094-4087
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/oe.435013

Event-driven adaptive optical neural network

Author(s): F. Brückerhoff-Plückelmann, I. Bente, M. Becker, N. Vollmar, N. Farmakidis, E. Lomonte, F. Lenzini, C. D. Wright, H. Bhaskaran, M. Salinga, B. Risse, W. H. P. Pernice
Published in: Science Advances, Issue 9(42), 2023, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: AAAS
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adi9127

Electronically Reconfigurable Photonic Switches Incorporating Plasmonic Structures and Phase Change Materials

Author(s): N. Farmakidis, N. Youngblood, J. S. Lee, J. Feldmann, A. Lodi, X. Li, S. Aggarwal, W. Zhou, L. Bogani, W. H. P. Pernice, C. D. Wright, H. Bhaskaran
Published in: Advanced Science, Issue 9(20), 2022, ISSN 2198-3844
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/advs.202270122

Conference proceedings (1)

Design for Robust and Efficient Neuromorphic Photonic Accelerator

Author(s): Aggarwal, Samarth; Dong, Bowei; Sang Lee, June; Wang, Mengyun; Katumba, Andrew; Bienstman, Peter; Bhaskaran, Harish
Published in: IEEE International Conference on Emerging Electronics (ICEE), Issue 8, 2022, ISBN 9781665491853
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/icee56203.2022.10117902

Book chapters (1)

Wavelength Tunable, Polymer-Based Arrayed Waveguide Gratings for Hybrid Integration

Author(s): Martin Kresse, Moritz Kleinert, David de Felipe, Tianwen Qian, Philipp Winklhofer, Madeleine Weigel, Klara Mihov, Jakob Reck, Crispin Zawadzki, Norbert Keil, Martin Schell
Published in: Springer Proceedings in Physics, The 25th European Conference on Integrated Optics, 2024, Page(s) 111-117
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-63378-2_19