Energy- and Size-efficient Ultra-fast Plasmonic Circuits for Neuromorphic Computing Architectures

Project Information

PlasmoniAC

Grant agreement ID: 871391

DOI 10.3030/871391

Project closed

EC signature date 5 December 2019

Start date 1 January 2020

End date 30 September 2023

Funded under

• INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies - Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)

Total cost € 4 114 926,25

EU contribution € 3 999 458,75

Coordinated by

ARISTOTELIO PANEPISTIMIO THESSALONIKIS
Greece

Deliverables

Documents, reports (9)

Factsheet and project presentation

D7.1 will encompass factsheet and project presentation.

Website development and setup of social account

D7.3 will report on the development of the webstite and setup of social accounts.

Final report on SiN passives, BTO plasmonic modulators & SiOC-based T/O plasmonic waveguide

D34 will report on the final SiN passives BTO plasmonic modulators and SiOC based TO plasmonic waveguides

Final plasmonic neuron device & circuit design, specifications & use cases

D23 will report on the final circuit designspecifications and use cases of the plasmonic neuron devices of the project

1st Project Press Release

Launch of first project press release.

PlasmoniAC video presentation

D7.4 will report on the development of the promotional video clip for PlasmoniAC.

Final publishable activity report

D15 will report on the final publishable activity of the project

Documentation standards

D1.1 will report on the generation of documentation standards to be used throughout the project.

Final report on market analysis, standardization activities, competitive analysis, dissemination and exploitation plans

D77 will report on the final market analysis standardization activities competitive analysis dissemination and exploitation plans of the project

Publications

Conference proceedings (23)

End-to-end deep learning with neuromorphic photonics

Author(s): Dabos George, Mourgias-Alexandris George, Totovic Angelina, Kirtas Manos, Passalis Nikolaos, Tefas Anastasios, Pleros Nikolaos
Published in: SPIE Photonics West OPTO 2021, 2021
Publisher: SPIE
DOI: 10.1117/12.2587668

Coherent photonic neuromorphic computing for high-speed deep learning applications

Author(s): Moralis-Pegios Miltiadis, Mourgias-Alexandris George, Tsakyridis Apostolos, Giamougiannis George, Totovic Angelina, Dabos George, Pleros Nikos
Published in: SPIE OPTO 2022, 2022
Publisher: SPIE
DOI: 10.1117/12.2606041

Neuromorphic computing through photonic integrated circuits

Author(s): George Mourgias-Alexandris, Angelina Totovic, Nikolaos Passalis, George Dabos, Anastasios Tefas, Nikos Pleros
Published in: Smart Photonic and Optoelectronic Integrated Circuits XXII, 2020, Page(s) 2, ISBN 9781510633322
Publisher: SPIE
DOI: 10.1117/12.2543781

Training Noise-Resilient Recurrent Photonic Networks for Financial Time Series Analysis

Author(s): N. Passalis, M. Kirtas, G. Mourgias-Alexandris, G. Dabos, N. Pleros, A. Tefas
Published in: 2020 28th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), 2021, Page(s) 1556-1560, ISBN 978-9-0827-9705-3
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.23919/eusipco47968.2020.9287649

On-Chip > 100 TMAC/sec Neuromorphic Photonics Turning into Reality

Author(s): Totovic Angelina, Tsakyridis Apostolos, Giamougiannis George, Moralis-Pegios Miltos, Dabos George, Mourgias-Alexandris George, Pleros Nikolaos
Published in: Photonics in Switching and Computing 2021, 2021, ISBN 978-1-943580-99-6
Publisher: Optica Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1364/psc.2021.m2b.2

Silicon Photonic Neuromorphic Computing with 16 GHz Input Data and Weight Update Line Rates

Author(s): Tsakyridis Apostolos, Giamougiannis George, Mourgias-Alexandris George, Totovic Angelina, Dabos George, Passalis Nikolaos, Kirtas Manos, Tefas Anastasios, Moralis-Pegios Miltiadis, Pleros Nikolaos
Published in: 2022 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2022
Publisher: IEEE

Compute with Light: Architectures, Technologies and Training Models for Neuromorphic Photonic Circuits

Author(s): Pleros Nikolaos, Moralis-Pegios Miltiadis, Totovic Angelina, Dabos George, Tsakyridis Apostolos, Giamougiannis George, Mourgias-Alexandris George, Passalis Nikolaos, Kirtas Manos, Tefas Anastasios
Published in: 2021 European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC), 2021, ISBN 978-1-6654-1150-9
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ecoc52684.2021.9606046

Optical Linear Operator with Optimal Fidelity

Author(s): Tsakyridis Apostolos, Giamougiannis George, Totovic Angelina, Moralis-Pegios Miltiadis, Lazovsky David, Pleros Nikolaos
Published in: 2022 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC), 2022, ISBN 978-1-6654-3488-1
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ipc53466.2022.9975645

All-optical recurrent neural network with sigmoid activation function

Author(s): G. Mourgias-Alexandris, G. Dabos, N. Passalis, A. Tefas, A. Totovic, and N. Pleros
Published in: OFC 2020, 2020, ISBN 978-1-9435-8071-2
Publisher: IEEE

Fidelity-Restorable Universal Linear Optics and Neuromorphic Photonics

Author(s): Tsakyridis Apostolos, Giamougiannis George, Totovic Angelina, Moralis-Pegios Miltiadis, Pleros Nikolaos
Published in: 2022 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2022, ISBN 978-1-957171-05-0
Publisher: Optica Publishing group
DOI: 10.1364/cleo_si.2022.sth5g.3

DDOS attack identification via a silicon photonic Deep Neural Network with 50 GHz input and weight update

Author(s): Tsakyridis Apostolos, Giamougiannis George, Moralis-Pegios Miltiadis, Mourgias-Alexandris George, Totovic Angelina, Dabos George, Kirtas Manos, Passalis Nikolaos, Tefas Anastasios, Kalavrouziotis Dimitrios Syrivelis Dimitris, Bakopoulos Paraskevas, Mentovich Elad, Pleros Nikolaos
Published in: 2023 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2023, ISBN 979-8-3503-1229-4
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1364/ofc.2023.w3g.1

Adaptive Initialization for Recurrent Photonic Networks using Sigmoidal Activations

Author(s): Nikolaos Passalis, George Mourgias-Alexandris, Nikos Pleros, Anastasios Tefas
Published in: 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2020, Page(s) 1-5, ISBN 978-1-7281-3320-1
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/iscas45731.2020.9181106

High-speed analog photonic computing with tiled matrix multiplication and dynamic precision capabilities for DNNs

Author(s): Giamougiannis George, Tsakyridis Apostolos, Moralis-Pegios Miltiadis, Pappas Christos, Kirtas Manos, Passalis Nikolaos, Lazovsky David, Tefas Anastasios, Pleros Nikolaos
Published in: 2022 European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC), 2022, ISBN 978-1-6654-7557-0
Publisher: IEEE

Photonic Recurrent Neural Networks with Gating Circuit

Author(s): Dabos George, Mourgias-Alexandris George, Totovic Angelina, Passalis Nikolaos, Tefas Anastasios, Pleros Nikolaos
Published in: 2020 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2020, ISBN 978-1-943580-76-7
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1364/cleo_at.2020.jtu2c.8

Time-series classification with an all-optical recurrent neuron

Author(s): Mourgias-Alexandris George, Passalis Nikolaos, Dabos George, Totovic Angelina, Tefas Anastasios, Pleros Nikolaos
Published in: 46th European Conference on Optical Communications 2020, 2021, ISBN 978-1-7281-7362-7
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ecoc48923.2020.9333208

Prospects for photonic implementations of neuromorphic devices and systems

Author(s): B. J. Offrein, J. Geler-Kremer, J. Weiss, R. Dangel, P. Stark, A. Sharma, Stefan Abel, F. Horst
Published in: 2020 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), 2020, Page(s) 7.4.1-7.4.4, ISBN 978-1-7281-8888-1
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/iedm13553.2020.9371915

Femtojoule Technology Roadmap for TeraMAC Neuromorphic Photonic Accelerators

Author(s): George Dabos, Angelina Totovic, Nikolaos Passalis, Anastasios Tefas, Nikos Pleros
Published in: 2020 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC), 2020, Page(s) 1-2, ISBN 978-1-7281-5891-4
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ipc47351.2020.9252535

Silicon-integrated coherent neurons with 32GMAC/sec/axon compute line-rates using EAM-based input and weighting cells

Author(s): Giamougiannis George, Tsakyridis Apostolos, Mourgias-Alexandris George, Moralis-Pegios Miltiadis, Totovic Angelina, Dabos George, Passalis Nikolaos, Kirtas Manos, Bamiedakis Nikos, Tefas Anastasios, Lazovsky David, Pleros Nikolaos
Published in: 2021 European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC), 2021, ISBN 978-1-6654-1150-9
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ecoc52684.2021.9605987

Photonic Neuromorphic Computing: Architectures, Technologies, and Training Models

Author(s): Moralis-Pegios Miltiadis, Totovic Angelina, Tsakyridis Apostolos, Giamougiannis George, Mourgias-Alexandris George, Passalis Nikolaos, Kirtas Manos, Tefas Anastasios, Pleros Nikolaos
Published in: 2022 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2022, ISBN 978-1-6654-7012-4
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1364/ofc.2022.m1g.4

100 Gbit/s NRZ Data Modulation in Plasmonic Racetrack Modulators on the Silicon Photonic Platform

Author(s): Messner, Andreas; id_orcid0000-0002-7849-9644; Baeuerle, Benedikt; Heni, Wolfgang; id_orcid0000-0003-0861-2530; De Leo, Eva; Winiger, Joel; Habegger, Patrick; Eppenberger, Marco; id_orcid0000-0001-9271-6863; Koch, Ueli; id_orcid0000-0001-8796-2146; Elder, Delwin L.; Dalton, Larry R.; Leuthold, Juerg; id_orcid0000-0003-0111-8169
Published in: 2020 European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC), Issue 4, 2020, ISBN 978-1-7281-7362-7
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.3929/ethz-b-000459799

A Silicon Photonic Coherent Neuron with 10GMAC/sec processing line-rate

Author(s): Mourgias-Alexandris George, Moralis-Pegios Miltiadis, Simos Stelios, Dabos George, Passalis Nikolaos, Kirtas Manos, Rutirawut Teerapat, Gardes Frederic, Tefas Anastasios, Pleros Nikolaos
Published in: 2021 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2021, ISBN 978-1-6654-2938-2
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1364/ofc.2021.tu5h.1

Programmable tanh- and ReLU-like Optoelectronic Activation Functions for Neuromorphic Photonic Circuits

Author(s): Pappas Christos, Kovaios Stefanos, Moralis-Pegios Miltiadis, Tsakyridis Apostolos, Giamougiannis George, Van Kerrebrouck Joris, Coudyzer Gertjan, Yin Xin, Pleros Nikolaos
Published in: 2023 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2023, ISBN 979-8-3503-1229-4
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1364/ofc.2023.m2j.3

25GMAC/sec/axon photonic neural networks with 7GHz bandwidth optics through channel response-aware training

Author(s): Mourgias-Alexandris George, Tsakyridis Apostolos, Passalis Nikolaos, Kirtas Manos, Tefas Anastasios, Rutirawut Teerapat, Gardes Frederic, Pleros Nikolaos\, Moralis-Pegios Miltiadis
Published in: 2021 European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC), 2021, ISBN 978-1-6654-1150-9
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ecoc52684.2021.9606097

Peer reviewed articles (17)

Neuromorphic Silicon Photonics and Hardware-aware Deep Learning for HIgh-Speed Inference

Author(s): Moralis-Pegios Miltiadis, Mourgias-Alexandris George, Tsakyridis Apostolos, Giamougiannis George, Totovic Angelina, Passalis Nikolaos, Kirtas Manos, Rutirawut T., Gardes F. Y., Tefas Anastasios Pleros Nikolaos
Published in: Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2022
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/jlt.2022.3171831

Universal Linear Optics Revisited: New Perspectives for Neuromorphic Computing with Silicon Photonics

Author(s): Giamougiannis George, Tsakyridis Apostolos, Moralis-Pegios Miltiadis, Totovic Angelina R., Kirtas Manos, Passalis Nikolaos, Tefas Anastasios, Lazovsky David, Pleros Nikolaos
Published in: IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 2022, ISSN 1077-260X
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/jstqe.2022.3228318

Broadband Metallic Fiber-to-Chip Couplers and a Low-Complexity Integrated Plasmonic Platform

Author(s): Andreas Messner; Pascal A. Jud; Joel Winiger; Marco Eppenberger; Daniel Chelladurai; Wolfgang Heni; Benedikt Baeuerle; Ueli Koch; Ping Ma; Christian Haffner; Huajun Xu; Delwin L. Elder; Larry R. Dalton; Jasmin Smajic; Juerg Leuthold
Published in: Nano Letters, Issue 5, 2021, ISSN 1530-6984
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.3929/ethz-b-000493455

Programmable Tanh-, ELU-, Sigmoid-, and Sin-Based Nonlinear Activation Functions for Neuromorphic Photonics

Author(s): Pappas Christos, Kovaios Stefanos, Moralis-Pegios Miltiadis, Tsakyridis Apostolos, Giamougiannis George, Kirtas Manos, Van Kerrebrouck Joris, Coudyzer Gertjan, Yin Xin, Passalis Nikolaos Tefas Anastasios, Pleros Nikolaos
Published in: IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 2023, ISSN 1077-260X
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/jstqe.2023.3277118

Neuromorphic photonic technologies and architectures: scaling opportunities and performance frontiers

Author(s): Dabos George, Bellas Dimitris V., Stabile Ripalta, Moralis-Pegios Miltiadis, Giamougiannis George, Tsakyridis Apostolos, Totovic Angelina, Lidorikis Elefterios, Pleros Nikolaos
Published in: Optical Material Express, 2022
Publisher: Optica Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1364/ome.452138

All-Optical WDM Recurrent Neural Networks With Gating

Author(s): George Mourgias-Alexandris, George Dabos, Nikolaos Passalis, Angelina Totovic, Anastasios Tefas, Nikos Pleros
Published in: IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, Issue 26/5, 2020, Page(s) 1-7, ISSN 1077-260X
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/jstqe.2020.2995830

Neuromorphic Photonics With Coherent Linear Neurons Using Dual-IQ Modulation Cells

Author(s): George Mourgias-Alexandris, Angelina Totovic, Apostolos Tsakyridis, Nikolaos Passalis, Konstantinos Vyrsokinos, Anastasios Tefas, Nikos Pleros
Published in: Journal of Lightwave Technology, Issue 38/4, 2020, Page(s) 811-819, ISSN 0733-8724
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1109/jlt.2019.2949133

Mixed-precision quantization-aware training for photonic neural networks

Author(s): Kirtas Manos, Passalis Nikolaos, Oikonomou Athina, Moralis-Pegios Miltos, Giamougiannis George, Tsakyridis Apostolos, Mourgias-Alexandris George, Pleros Nikolaos, Tefas Anastasios
Published in: Neural Computing & Applications, 2023
Publisher: Springer Link
DOI: 10.1007/s00521-023-08848-8

Neuromorphic photonics: 2D or not 2D?

Author(s): R. Stabile, G. Dabos, C. Vagionas, B. Shi, N. Calabretta, N. Pleros
Published in: Journal of Applied Physics, Issue 129/20, 2021, Page(s) 200901, ISSN 0021-8979
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/5.0047946

Analog nanophotonic computing going practical: silicon photonic deep learning engines for tiled optical matrix multiplication with dynamic precision

Author(s): Giamougiannis George, Tsakyridis Apostolos, Moralis-Pegios Miltiadis, Pappas Christos, Kirtas Manos, Passalis Nikolaos, Lazovsky David, Tefas Anastasios, Pleros Nikolaos
Published in: Nanophotonics, 2023
Publisher: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/nanoph-2022-0423

Timescale dependent sign of amorphous titanium dioxide thermo-optic coefficient

Author(s): Weeber, Jean-Claude and Andrieux, Aurore and Gourier, Marie-Maxime and Arocas, Juan and Markey, Laurent and Hammani, Kamal and Bouhelier, Alexandre and Bellas, Dimitris V and Lidorikis, Elefterios and Pleros, Nikos
Published in: Optical Materials Express, 2023, Page(s) 2882-2894, ISSN 2159-3930
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/ome.496559

Generalized Mach Zehnder interferometers integrated on Si3N4 waveguide platform

Author(s): Kovaios Stefanos, Tsakyridis Apostolos, Giamougiannis George, Fotiadis Konstantinos, Sacchetto Davide, Zervas Michael, Moralis-Pegios Miltiadis, Pleros Nikos
Published in: IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 2023, ISSN 1077-260X
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/jstqe.2023.3281411

Femtojoule per MAC Neuromorphic Photonics: An Energy and Technology Roadmap

Author(s): Angelina R. Totovic, George Dabos, Nikolaos Passalis, Anastasios Tefas, Nikos Pleros
Published in: IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, Issue 26/5, 2020, Page(s) 1-15, ISSN 1077-260X
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/jstqe.2020.2975579

Designs of Silicon Nitride Slot Waveguide Modulators With Electro-Optic Polymer and the Effect of Induced Charges in Si-Substrate on Their Performance

Author(s): Teerapat Rutirawut, Wanvisa Talataisong, Frederic Y. Gardes
Published in: IEEE Photonics Journal, Issue 13/2, 2021, Page(s) 1-15, ISSN 1943-0655
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/jphot.2021.3059276

Towards low loss non-volatile phase change materials in mid index waveguides

Author(s): Joaquin Faneca, Ioannis Zeimpekis, S T Ilie, Thalía Domínguez Bucio, Katarzyna Grabska, Daniel W Hewak, Frederic Y Gardes
Published in: Neuromorphic Computing and Engineering, Issue 1/1, 2021, Page(s) 014004, ISSN 2331-8422
Publisher: ArXiv.org
DOI: 10.1088/2634-4386/ac156e

Neuromorphic silicon photonics with 50 GHz tiled matrix multiplication for deep-learning applications

Author(s): Giamougiannis George, Tsakyridis Apostolos, Moralis-Pegios Miltiadis, Mourgias-Alexandris George, Totovic Angelina R., Dabos George, Kirtas Manos, Passalis Nikolaos, Tefas Anastasios, Kalavrouziotis Dimitrios Syrivelis Dimitris, Bakopoulos Paraskevas, Mentovich Elad, Lazovski David, Pleros Nikolaos
Published in: Advanced Photonics, 2023
Publisher: SPIE
DOI: 10.1117/1.ap.5.1.016004

A Photonic Recurrent Neuron for Time-Series Classification

Author(s): George Mourgias-Alexandris, Nikolaos Passalis, George Dabos, Angelina Totovic, Anastasios Tefas, Nikos Pleros
Published in: Journal of Lightwave Technology, Issue 39/5, 2021, Page(s) 1340-1347, ISSN 0733-8724
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1109/jlt.2020.3038890