LPHYS'26.    Program:

Seminar 12: Optical Computing and Neural Networks

Co-chairs:

Optical analogue computing methods, including optical neural networks for artificial intelligence and combinatorial optimization.

Schedule:

  1. Monday, 6 July, 2026
  2. S12.1 (13:30 – 15:30)
    1. 13:30 – 14:00 L G Wright (Department of Applied Physics, Yale University, New Haven CT, USA)On the Possibility of a Virtuous Cycle Between Photonics and Computing Abstract 
    2. 14:00 – 14:30 W Renninger (The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, Rochester NY, USA) Offset-Diagonal Computing for Scalable and Sparsity-Enabled Optical Processors Abstract 
    3. 14:30 – 15:00 F A Aflatouni (Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA, USA) Optical Commuting: From Deep Neural Networks to Using Solvers Abstract 
  3. S12.2 (16:00 – 18:00)
    1. 16:00 – 16:30 B Carpinlioglu, U Tegin (Electric and Electronic Engineering, Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey)Scalable and Energy-Efficient Optical Computing Architectures Abstract 
    2. 16:30 – 17:00 A Singha, K Wang (Department of Physics, McGill University, Montréal, Canada) Fisher-Aware Training of Multiplane Light Conversion for Optical Parameter Estimation Abstract 
    3. 17:00 – 17:30 M G Suh (PHI Lab, NTT Research, Sunnyvale, CA, USA) WDM and Hyperspectral MAC: Pathways to Optical Advantage in Short-Reach Systems Abstract 
    4. 17:30 – 17:55 S S Straupe (Sber Quantum technologies center, Moscow, Russia) Integrated Optical Tensor Processors Abstract 
  4. Tuesday, 7 July, 2026
  5. S12.3 (13:30 – 15:30)
    1. 13:30 – 13:55 H E Tureci (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton NJ, USA)Measurement-Adapted Eigentask Representations for Photon-Limited Optical Readout Abstract 
    2. 13:55 – 14:20 F Cardano (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy) Free-Space Photonic Circuits for Spatially Structured Light Abstract 
    3. 14:20 – 14:45 Y Li (Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca NY, USA; Sorbonne Université, CNRS, ENS-Université PSL, Collège de France, 4 Place Jussieu, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Paris, France), N A Behrens, F Monticone (Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca NY, USA) Information-Theoretic Interpretation of Metaoptic Frontends for Efficient Design and Implementation Abstract 
    4. 14:45 – 15:10 R Hamerly (Opticore, Berkeley CA, USA) Large-Scale Photonic Homodyne Tensor Processor Abstract 
    5. 15:10 – 15:30 M Hary, A Skalli, L Cardenas-Razo, A Ermolaev (Département d’Optique P. M. Duffieux, FEMTO-ST Institute, UMR CNRS 6174, Besançon, France), M Marciniak, M Gebski, J Lott (Institute of Physics, Lodz University of technology, Wólczańska 217/22190-005 Łódź, Poland, Lodz, Poland), G Genty (Department of Physics, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland), T Czyszanowski (Institute of Physics, Lodz University of technology, Wólczańska 217/22190-005 Łódź, Poland, Lodz, Poland), J M Dudley, D Brunner (Département d’Optique P. M. Duffieux, FEMTO-ST Institute, UMR CNRS 6174, Besançon, France) Principles and Metrics of Photonic Learning Machines Abstract 
  6. Wednesday, 8 July, 2026
  7. S12.4 (13:30 – 15:30)
    1. 13:30 – 14:00 A Marandi (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena CA, USA)Nonlinear Resonator Networks: From Complex Optics to Advanced Computing and Sensing Abstract 
    2. 14:00 – 14:30 H T Takesue (NTT, Inc., Kanagawa, Japan) Evaluation of Coherent Ising Machine as an Associative Memory Abstract 
    3. 14:30 – 15:00 H Cao (Yale University, New Haven CT, USA) Optical Kernel Machine with Programmable Nonlinearity Abstract 
    4. 15:00 – 15:30 A K Vorobyev (Laboratory for Quantum Optics, Russian Quantum Center, Moscow, Russia; Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow, Russia), A N Danilin (Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia; Coherent Microoptics and Radiophotonics Group, Russian Quantum Center, Moscow, Russia), T R Yunusov, A P Dushanin, E S Vahnitskaya (Laboratory for Quantum Optics, Russian Quantum Center, Moscow, Russia; Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow, Russia), M L Galkin (Laboratory for Quantum Optics, Russian Quantum Center, Moscow, Russia; Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow, Russia), N S Tatarinova (Laboratory for Quantum Optics, Russian Quantum Center, Moscow, Russia; Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow, Russia), A D Ivanov (Laboratory for Quantum Optics, Russian Quantum Center, Moscow, Russia), V E Lobanov, A E Shitikov (Coherent Microoptics and Radiophotonics Group, Russian Quantum Center, Moscow, Russia), I A Bilenko (Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia; Coherent Microoptics and Radiophotonics Group, Russian Quantum Center, Moscow, Russia), D A Chermoshentsev (Laboratory for Quantum Optics, Russian Quantum Center, Moscow, Russia; Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow, Russia) Integrated Microring Resonators for All-Optical Coherent Ising and Potts Machines Abstract 

Accepted Talks:

The following talks have been accepted. They will be scheduled for presentation at LPHYS'26.

  1. Z G Cheng (College of Integrated Circuits & Micro-Nano Electronics, Fudan University, Shanghai, China)Photonic In-Memory Computing Abstract