RETRACTED ARTICLE: Analytical investigations of propagation of ultra-broad nonparaxial pulses in a birefringent optical waveguide by three computational ideas by Yuanyuan Liu, Jalil Manafian, Gurpreet Singh, Naief Alabed Alkader, Kottakkaran Sooppy Nisar

“…These solutions can be significant in the use of understanding the behavior of wave guides when studying Kerr medium, optical computing and optical beams in Kerr like nonlinear media. …”
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Nonlocal effects in temporal metamaterials by Rizza Carlo, Castaldi Giuseppe, Galdi Vincenzo

“…By fully exploiting the time-reversal symmetry breaking, nonlocal temporal metamaterials promise a great potential for efficient, tunable optical computing devices.…”
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Programming universal unitary transformations on a general-purpose silicon photonic platform by José Roberto Rausell-Campo, Daniel Pérez-López, José Capmany Francoy

“…To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time that random unitary matrices are demonstrated on a general-purpose photonic processor and pave the way for the implementation of programmable photonic circuits in optical computing and signal processing systems.…”
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Designing disordered multi-functional metamaterials using the discrete dipole approximation by J R Capers, S J Boyes, A P Hibbins, S A R Horsley

“…The ability to design passive structures that perform different operations on different electromagnetic fields is key to many technologies, from beam-steering to optical computing. While many techniques have been developed to optimise structures to achieve specific functionality through inverse design, designing multi-function materials remains challenging. …”
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The art and science of translucent color organic solar cells by Baozhong Deng, Yi Li, Zhouyi Lu, Kaiwen Zheng, Tao Xu, Shenghao Wang, Xiaoshu Luo, Bruno Grandidier, Jianhua Zhang, Furong Zhu

“…The performance−color relationship of the translucent color OSCs is analyzed using a combination of high-throughput optical computing and experimental optimization, allowing light with desired color to pass through, while absorbing enough light to generate electricity. …”
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Chip-scale all-optical complex-valued matrix inverter by Xinyu Liu, Junwei Cheng, Hailong Zhou, Jianji Dong, Xinliang Zhang

“…Matrix inversion is a fundamental and widely utilized linear algebraic operation but computationally expensive in digital-clock-based platforms. Optical computing is a new computing paradigm with high speed and energy efficiency, and the computation can be realized through light propagation. …”
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Two-dimensional non-Abelian Thouless pump by Yi-Ke Sun, Zhong-Lei Shan, Zhen-Nan Tian, Qi-Dai Chen, Xu-Lin Zhang

“…The proposed 2D non-Abelian Thouless pump shows promising applications for robust optical interconnections and optical computing.…”
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Pixelated non-volatile programmable photonic integrated circuits with 20-level intermediate states by Wenyu Chen, Shiyuan Liu, Jinlong Zhu

“…We believe our work lays the foundation for laser-writing ultra-high-level (20 levels and even more) programmable photonic systems and metasurfaces based on phase change materials, which could catalyze diverse applications such as programmable neuromorphic photonics, biosensing, optical computing, photonic quantum computing, and reconfigurable metasurfaces.…”
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Voltage-controlled nonlinear optical properties in gold nanofilms via electrothermal effect by Changjian Lv, Fanchao Meng, Linghao Cui, Yadong Jiao, Zhixu Jia, Weiping Qin, Guanshi Qin

“…Abstract Dynamic control of the optical properties of gold nanostructures is crucial for advancing photonics technologies spanning optical signal processing, on-chip light sources and optical computing. Despite recent advances in tunable plasmons in gold nanostructures, most studies are limited to the linear or static regime, leaving the dynamic manipulation of nonlinear optical properties unexplored. …”
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On-demand photonic Ising machine with simplified Hamiltonian calculation by phase encoding and intensity detection by Jiayi Ouyang, Yuxuan Liao, Zhiyao Ma, Deyang Kong, Xue Feng, Xiang Zhang, Xiaowen Dong, Kaiyu Cui, Fang Liu, Wei Zhang, Yidong Huang

“…Abstract The photonic Ising machine is a new paradigm of optical computing that takes advantage of the unique properties of light wave propagation, parallel processing, and low-loss transmission. …”
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Pruning and optimization of optical neural network as a binary optical trigger by Bokun Zhao, Xuening Dong, Kaveh Rahbardar Mojaver, Brett H. Meyer, Odile Liboiron-Ladouceur

“…To leverage the distinct advantages of integrated optical processors while avoiding its shortcomings given the current state of optical computing, we propose the binary optical trigger as a promising field of application. …”
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Recent Advances in Graphene-Assisted Nonlinear Optical Signal Processing by Jian Wang, Xiao Hu

“…In this review article, we give a brief overview of our recent progress in graphene-assisted nonlinear optical device and their applications, including degenerate FWM based wavelength conversion of quadrature phase-shift keying (QPSK) signal, phase conjugated wavelength conversion by degenerate FWM and transparent wavelength conversion by nondegenerate FWM, two-input and three-input high-base optical computing, and high-speed gate-tunable terahertz coherent perfect absorption (CPA) using a split-ring graphene.…”
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Spectral convolutional neural network chip for in-sensor edge computing of incoherent natural light by Kaiyu Cui, Shijie Rao, Sheng Xu, Yidong Huang, Xusheng Cai, Zhilei Huang, Yu Wang, Xue Feng, Fang Liu, Wei Zhang, Yali Li, Shengjin Wang

“…To the best of our knowledge, this is the first integrated optical computing utilizing natural light. We employ the same SCNN chip for completely different real-world complex tasks and achieve accuracies of over 96% for pathological diagnosis and almost 100% for face anti-spoofing at video rates. …”
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Pulmonary Nodule Detection and Classification Using All-Optical Deep Diffractive Neural Network by Junjie Shao, Lingxiao Zhou, Sze Yan Fion Yeung, Ting Lei, Wanlong Zhang, Xiaocong Yuan

“…A deep diffractive neural network (D2NN) is a fast optical computing structure that has been widely used in image classification, logical operations, and other fields. …”
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Tunable parity-time symmetry vortex laser from a phase change material-based microcavity by Ying Su, Hongji Fan, Shitong Zhang, Tun Cao

“…Our study on high-speed tunable PT-symmetry vortex lasers facilitates the next generation of integrated optoelectronic devices for optical computing and communications in both classical and quantum regions.…”
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Photorefractive and pyroelectric photonic memory and long-term stability in thin-film lithium niobate microresonators by Xinyi Ren, Chun-Ho Lee, Kaiwen Xue, Shaoyuan Ou, Yue Yu, Zaijun Chen, Mengjie Yu

“…Photonic memory is useful for low-energy optical computing and interconnects. Thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN), an emerging photonic platform, exhibits complex material properties including pyroelectric and photorefractive effects which could cause intra-device drift and excess noise under different conditions and enable photonic memory. …”
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Spectral-temporal-spatial customization via modulating multimodal nonlinear pulse propagation by Tong Qiu, Honghao Cao, Kunzan Liu, Li-Yu Yu, Manuel Levy, Eva Lendaro, Fan Wang, Sixian You

“…These demonstrations provide possibilities for technology advances in nonlinear optics, bioimaging, spectroscopy, optical computing, and material processing.…”
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The Design and Simulation of a Novel Optical Adder Depending on Optical Tri-state Gates by Qabeela Thabit, Issa Ahmed Abed, Alaa A Al-Saffar

“… Essential approaches involving photons are among the most common uses of parallel optical computation due to their recent invention, ease of production, and low cost. …”
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Energy-Efficient All-Optical Control of Silicon Microring Resonators via the Optical Gradient Force by Linhao Ren, Hao Wen, Lei Shi, Xinliang Zhang

“…All-optical control of silicon photonic devices plays a key role in on-chip all-optical computing, switching and signal processing. However, due to the weak intrinsic nonlinear effects of silicon, current integrated devices are limited by high power consumptions. …”
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Sequential harmonic spin–orbit angular momentum generation in nonlinear optical crystals by Yutao Tang, Zixian Hu, Junhong Deng, Kingfai Li, Guixin Li

“…The proposed methodology may find potential applications in optical communications, parallel optical computing, optical manipulation and so on.…”
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