Download or read book Photonic Computing Architectures for Classical and Quantum Information Processing written by Benjamin C Bartlett and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As progress in traditional electronic computing systems approaches fundamental physical limits, we must explore alternative approaches for further growth in computing power. Photonics is a promising hardware platform for many emerging computing technologies, including optical neural networks and quantum computation. In this thesis, I will present several novel designs for light-based computing systems. First, I will discuss several advancements we have made in nanophotonic neural networks, including design and experimental realization of electro-optic nonlinear activation functions, and architectures and initialization routines for programmable linear optical devices. Next, I will present two novel schemes for quantum information processing: a programmable photonic gate array which can be dynamically reconfigured to prepare any quantum state, and an architecture for an optical quantum computer which can perform any calculation using only a single directly controllable qubit. Finally, I will discuss a design for a photonic quantum emulator capable of simulating the dynamics of a broad class of Hamiltonians in lattices with arbitrary dimensions and topologies.