Smart Photonics Labs

Just playing a bit with image generators. Love this one. ✨ Living the future ✨

The Smarties are on the way from CLEO Munich. What a great event! It was a pleasure.

Two more talks to come tomorrow. Join us at CLEO/EQEC Munich.

Yay!! Today, we celebrated the first original paper from our Smart Photonics Group @leibnizipht.bsky.social. What a great success!

Special guests: Bruno Pessoa Chaves, Manal Arbati from XLIM Limoges, and Andrei Ermolaev from Femto-ST Besançon, France.

It was a very exciting exchange.

The project is funded by the Free State of Thuringia and co-financed by the European Union within the framework of the ERDF.

Thanks #Europe 🇪🇺. Thanks #Germany 🇩🇪.

Our lab has received a significant equipment boost by the ERDF and the federal state of Thuringia.

The new infrastructure is driving our research in three areas:

🎯 Neuromorphic computing for energy-efficient information processing

🎯 Optical AI for smart imaging

🎯 Integrated photonics

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Mein Interview für das Stylepark Magazin über das neuronal-inspirierte Rechnen mit Licht 👇

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Nice!

2 talks and 2 posters will be presented by my students on CLEO/EQEC Joint Symposium on Photonics for AI this June in Munich.

Thanks to the organizers for this opportunity.

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🚀 that we are able to accurately adjust a nonlinear transformation down to the linear limit so to process linear and more nonlinear inference tasks with the same unit,

🚀 and a highly promising pathway towards computing with turbulent systems.

Stay tuned. Exciting times ahead.

Still in 2025, we will show

🚀 that an extreme learning framework operating on nonlinear frequency mixing outperforms a 5-layer deep network in a provably scalable nonlinear task (lnkd.in/ePq8xQzC),

📍Analog neuromorphic computing in optical fibers and waveguides

📍The foundations of various concepts, incl deep learning, supervised/unsupervised learning, and inference capacity

📍Large-scale parallel and ultrafast computing using adaptive optics and programmable fibers.

What else can be done now?!

Straight answer: Analog computing. Neurons are not digital, they operate on analog electrochemistry.

You want to learn the basics of such analog computing concepts with classical light? Follow our group and learn about: […]

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The future of computing is #Light.

As Jose Polo highlights via LinkedIn, NVIDIA rolls out first silicon photonics/ CMOS co-processor. Impressive progress! One step closer towards green AI hardware 🌱

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Hello from the Smart Team. This week from the Leibniz-IPHT seminar at Dornburg (just a few kilometers outside Jena).

Great weather, fantastic view, and excellent science. #goodvibes

A warm welcome to the official feed by the Smart Photonics Lab led by Mario Chemnitz (@laserjunge.bsky.social) at @leibnizipht.bsky.social

Follow us if you’re keen to explore the world of optical neuromorphic computing and sensing with us. #scienceonly