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arxiv: 2501.07917 · v2 · pith:TSFJ6G5Lnew · submitted 2025-01-14 · 💻 cs.ET · physics.app-ph· physics.optics

Roadmap on Neuromorphic Photonics

Daniel Brunner , Bhavin J. Shastri , Mohammed A. Al Qadasi , H. Ballani , Sylvain Barbay , Stefano Biasi , Peter Bienstman , Simon Bilodeau
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Wim Bogaerts Fabian B\"ohm G. Brennan Sonia Buckley Xinlun Cai Marcello Calvanese Strinati B. Canakci Benoit Charbonnier Mario Chemnitz Yitong Chen Stanley Cheung Jeff Chiles Suyeon Choi Demetrios N. Christodoulides Lukas Chrostowski J. Chu J. H. Clegg D. Cletheroe Claudio Conti Qionghai Dai Luigi Di Lauro Nikolaos Panteleimon Diamantopoulos Niyazi Ulas Dinc Jacob Ewaniuk Shanhui Fan Lu Fang Riccardo Franchi Pedro Freire Silvia Gentilini Sylvain Gigan Gian Luca Giorgi C. Gkantsidis J. Gladrow Elena Goi M. Goldmann A. Grabulosa Min Gu Xianxin Guo Mat\v{e}j Hejda F. Horst Jih Liang Hsieh Jianqi Hu Juejun Hu Chaoran Huang Antonio Hurtado Lina Jaurigue K. P. Kalinin Morteza Kamalian Kopae D. J. Kelly Mercedeh Khajavikhan H. Kremer Jeremie Laydevant Joshua C. Lederman Jongheon Lee Daan Lenstra Gordon H.Y. Li Mo Li Yuhang Li Xing Lin Zhongjin Lin Mieszko Lis Kathy L\"udge Alessio Lugnan Alessandro Lupo A. I. Lvovsky Egor Manuylovich Alireza Marandi Federico Marchesin Serge Massar Adam N. McCaughan Peter L. McMahon Miltiadis Moralis Pegios Roberto Morandotti Christophe Moser David J. Moss Avilash Mukherjee Mahdi Nikdast B.J. Offrein Ilker Oguz Bakhrom Oripov G. O'Shea Aydogan Ozcan F. Parmigiani Sudeep Pasricha Fabio Pavanello Lorenzo Pavesi Nicola Peserico L. Pickup Davide Pierangeli Nikos Pleros Xavier Porte Bryce A. Primavera Paul Prucnal Demetri Psaltis Lukas Puts Fei Qiao B. Rahmani Fabrice Raineri Carlos A. R\'ios Ocampo Joshua Robertson Bruno Romeira Charles Roques Carmes Nir Rotenberg A. Rowstron Steffen Schoenhardt Russell L . T. Schwartz Jeffrey M. Shainline Sudip Shekhar Anas Skalli Mandar M. Sohoni Volker J. Sorger Miguel C. Soriano James Spall Ripalta Stabile Birgit Stiller Satoshi Sunada Anastasios Tefas Bassem Tossoun Apostolos Tsakyridis Sergei K. Turitsyn Guy Van der Sande Thomas Van Vaerenbergh Daniele Veraldi Guy Verschaffelt E.A. Vlieg Hao Wang Tianyu Wang Gordon Wetzstein Logan G. Wright Changming Wu Chu Wu Jiamin Wu Fei Xia Xingyuan Xu Hangbo Yang Weiming Yao Mustafa Yildirim S. J. Ben Yoo Nathan Youngblood Roberta Zambrini Haiou Zhang Weipeng Zhang
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This roadmap consolidates recent advances while exploring emerging applications, reflecting the remarkable diversity of hardware platforms, neuromorphic concepts, and implementation philosophies reported in the field. It emphasizes the critical role of cross-disciplinary collaboration in this rapidly evolving field.

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