Demonstration of WDM-Enabled Ultralow-Energy Photonic Edge Computing
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Sludds, Alexander; Hamerly, Ryan; Bandyopadhyay, Saumil; Zhong, Zhizhen; Chen, Zaijun; Bernstein, Liane; Ghobadi, Manya; Englund, Dirk
- Source
- 2022 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC) Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2022. :1-3 Mar, 2022
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Photonics and Electrooptics
Optical fibers
Wavelength division multiplexing
Optical fiber communication
Optical receivers
Low-power electronics
Edge computing
Photonics
- Language
We present experimental demonstrations of ultra-low power edge computing enabled by wavelength division multiplexed optical links and time-integrating optical receivers. Initial experimentation demonstrations show ≤ 10 fJ of optical energy per MAC. © 2022 The Author(s)