DOT PRODUCT OPERATOR FOR PHOTONIC AND EDGE COMPUTING APPLICATIONS

Abstract

The project aims to explore the potential of silicon photonics in matrix computation, particularly in dot product operator. Silicon photonics is a promising technology for the next generation of computing due to its higher bandwidth, low fabrication cost, CMOS compatibility, and low-power consumption. Moreover, dot product operator is an important part of many modern algorithms, including signal processing and artificial intelligence algorithms such as neural network algorithms. The project will focus on the Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) based dot product operator, namely on Electrooptic Mach-Zehnder Interferometer (EO-MZI) with the integrated memory ship