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Compact ultra-low power 2x2 Photonic Switch on Silicon
Researchers at George Washington University recently invented an optical switching technology for future photonics network-on-chip (NOC). This invention enables compact, cost-effective two orders of magnitude increases in bandwidth and dramatically more energy-efficient communication between CPU’s compared to traditional electrical interconnects....
Published: 7/30/2024   |   Inventor(s): Volker Sorger, Chenran Ye, Ke Liu
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Computers Electronics & Software > Sensors, Technology Classifications > Computers Electronics & Software > Computing Architecture
Two Optical Convolutional Neural Network Accelerator
In today's AI revolution, Neural Networks (NNs) have taken center stage, driving remarkable progress in artificial intelligence over the past decade. However, existing technologies like FPGA and GPU implementations, though widely used for accelerating Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) face significant limitations in terms of speed, energy efficiency,...
Published: 7/30/2024   |   Inventor(s): Armin Mehrabian, Volker Sorger, Tarek El-Ghazawi, Mario Miscuglio
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Category(s): Technology Classifications, Technology Classifications > Computers Electronics & Software
Hybrid interconnects for on-chip communication: A solution with low latency and efficient energy consumption
­​​​​​​As computer chip feature size continue to decrease, power consumed due to on-chip communications will dramatically grow. This calls for new techniques which can provide higher bandwidth and data rates than over traditional electrical interconnects. Photonic interconnects can provide higher bandwidth and data rates. However optoelectronic...
Published: 7/30/2024   |   Inventor(s): Shuai Sun, Volker Sorger, Tarek El-Ghazawi, Vikram Narayana, Abdel-Hameed Badawy
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Industrial or Consumer Tech > Energy Infrastructure and Environment, Technology Classifications > Industrial or Consumer Tech > Materials, Technology Classifications > Computers Electronics & Software > Processing Chips
Symmetry-Detecting Spiking Artificial Neural Network
Researchers at GW have developed a novel and efficient solution to detect symmetry lines and points within multidimensional spatial data that could be utilized in data processing and robotics. The solution can take the form of one or more artificial neural networks that can be configured to efficiently detect symmetry lines and points within multidimensional...
Published: 7/30/2024   |   Inventor(s): Jonathan George, Volker Sorger
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Computers Electronics & Software > Cloud Computing, Technology Classifications > Computers Electronics & Software > Computing Architecture, Technology Classifications > Computers Electronics & Software > Robotics, Technology Classifications > Computers Electronics & Software > Artificial Intelligence
Hybrid Photonic Plasmonic Non-blocking Wide Spectrum WDM On-chip Router
Researchers at GW have developed a novel hybrid photonic plasmonic non-blocking wide spectrum WDM On-chip Router. The disclosed invention is highly energy efficient. For example, the design could be used as optical routers in optical networks with non-blocking routing strategy, femtojoule energy efficiency and ultra-high operating speed. Further, through...
Published: 7/30/2024   |   Inventor(s): Shuai Sun, Volker Sorger, Tarek El-Ghazawi, Vikram Narayana
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Computers Electronics & Software > Sensors, Technology Classifications > Computers Electronics & Software > Computing Architecture, Technology Classifications > Computers Electronics & Software > Cloud Computing, Technology Classifications > Computers Electronics & Software > Databases, Technology Classifications > Computers Electronics & Software > Processing Chips
Graphene-based Plasmonic Slot Electro-optic Modulator
Researchers at GW have developed a novel, cost-effective solution to perform electrical optical conversion. The solution can be a device or a design that can be graphene-based and can be a plasmonic slot electro-optic modulator as can be appreciated. The solution has a range of applications and advantages. For example, the novel solution is energy efficient,...
Published: 7/30/2024   |   Inventor(s): Zhizhen Ma, Volker Sorger
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Computers Electronics & Software > Processing Chips, Technology Classifications > Computers Electronics & Software > Sensors, Technology Classifications > Diagnostics > Precision Medicine
All Optical Fast Fourier Transform on Chip
Researchers at GW have developed a novel solution that can perform Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) in a nontrivial computation by parallelism. The novel solution can be a device involving All Optical Fast Fourier Transform (OFFT) on Chip which has the benefits of being a high speed, low energy, and powerful signal processing tool. The novel solution...
Published: 7/30/2024   |   Inventor(s): Volker Sorger, Hani Nejadriahi
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Computers Electronics & Software > Processing Chips, Technology Classifications > Computers Electronics & Software > Sensors
Residue Number System Adder and Multiplier based on Integrated Nanophotonics
Researchers at GW have developed a novel, cost-effective, and energy-efficient residue number system (RNS) adder and multiplier that is based on integrated nanophotonics. The disclosed invention utilizes multiplication-accumulation computation (MAC) operations that can use one summand/multiplicand repetitively millions of times. In other words, aspects...
Published: 7/30/2024   |   Inventor(s): Volker Sorger, Tarek El-Ghazawi, Shuai Sun, Jiaxin Peng
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Computers Electronics & Software > Cloud Computing, Technology Classifications > Computers Electronics & Software > Artificial Intelligence
The Reconfigurable Optical Coprocessor
Researchers at GW have developed a novel, cost-effective, energy-efficient solution having enhanced performance, programmable array of photonic R (and LC) components using nanoplasmonics technology in order to solve systems that can be described through differential equations and converted into electrical analogues. The solution involves computing processes...
Published: 7/30/2024   |   Inventor(s): Volker Sorger, Tarek El-Ghazawi, Shuai Sun, Vikram Narayana, Abdel-Hameed Badawy
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Computers Electronics & Software > Robotics, Technology Classifications > Computers Electronics & Software > Sensors, Technology Classifications > Computers Electronics & Software > Processing Chips
CMOS Compatible Light Emitting Tunnel Junction for Photonic Integrated Circuits (PIC) and Optical Communication
With the emergence of photonic integration, the challenges (a) to create light from silicon and (b) to realize electronically compact photonics have delayed the anticipated introduction of photonics into electronic consumer products. While a variety of light emitters exist such as LEDs and semiconductor solid-sate-lasers, existing technology is hindered...
Published: 7/30/2024   |   Inventor(s): Volker Sorger, Hasan Goktas
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Computers Electronics & Software > Processing Chips