<p>The rapid progress of artificial intelligence demands scalable, energy-efficient hardware with massive parallelism and high throughput. Although optical computing offers a promising post-Moore solution, current implementations face speed limitations and multi-core integration challenges. Here, we propose a high-throughput optical processing unit (OPU) that simultaneously exploits coherent interference, wavelength-division multiplexing, and spatial parallelism to achieve revolutionary performance gains. Integrating four optical analog cores on a monolithic chip, the OPU supports 124-channel parallel task processing, achieving 65.04 trillion operations per second (TOPS) computational speed and 5.16 TOPS/mm<sup>2</sup> compute density. Leveraging this OPU platform, an optoelectronic convolutional neural network (OE-CNN) is constructed that fuses the OPU’s parallel 4-kernel convolution and average pooling operations with electronic nonlinear activation and fully connection operations. This OE-CNN, empowered by multi-feature fusion through 4-kernel parallel convolution, achieves a 95.08% MNIST classification accuracy—representing a 9.20% improvement over its single-core counterpart. The OPU demonstration achieves multi-core parallel operation and accelerated computational speed, establishing a scalable hardware foundation for optoelectronic many-core intelligent computing.</p>

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65 TOPS optoelectronic multi-core computing unlocking multi-feature fusion enhancement

  • Xiangyan Meng,
  • Junshen Li,
  • Menghan Yang,
  • Kangwei Fei,
  • Yanzhen Li,
  • Wei Li,
  • Jianping Yao,
  • Ninghua Zhu,
  • Nuannuan Shi,
  • Ming Li

摘要

The rapid progress of artificial intelligence demands scalable, energy-efficient hardware with massive parallelism and high throughput. Although optical computing offers a promising post-Moore solution, current implementations face speed limitations and multi-core integration challenges. Here, we propose a high-throughput optical processing unit (OPU) that simultaneously exploits coherent interference, wavelength-division multiplexing, and spatial parallelism to achieve revolutionary performance gains. Integrating four optical analog cores on a monolithic chip, the OPU supports 124-channel parallel task processing, achieving 65.04 trillion operations per second (TOPS) computational speed and 5.16 TOPS/mm2 compute density. Leveraging this OPU platform, an optoelectronic convolutional neural network (OE-CNN) is constructed that fuses the OPU’s parallel 4-kernel convolution and average pooling operations with electronic nonlinear activation and fully connection operations. This OE-CNN, empowered by multi-feature fusion through 4-kernel parallel convolution, achieves a 95.08% MNIST classification accuracy—representing a 9.20% improvement over its single-core counterpart. The OPU demonstration achieves multi-core parallel operation and accelerated computational speed, establishing a scalable hardware foundation for optoelectronic many-core intelligent computing.