用光子技术突破AI算力瓶颈,实现高效能低功耗计算。
Harnessing Photonics for Machine Intelligence

- 从系统层出发,通过光子与电子协同设计提升算力效率。
- 提出跨层协同优化框架,支持不同应用负载的自适应编程。
- 强调光电子自动化设计工具链对规模化落地的关键作用。
机器智能工作负载的指数级增长正遭遇后摩尔时代在功耗、内存和互连方面的瓶颈,推动仅靠晶体管密度提升之外的新型计算架构发展。集成光子学凭借光学带宽和并行性,有望重塑数据流动与计算方式,成为人工智能加速的候选方案。本文从电路与系统视角重新审视光子计算,超越基础单元进展,转向跨层系统分析与全栈设计自动化。通过瓶颈驱动的分类体系,明确光子技术在不同运行状态与扩展趋势中实现端到端持续优势的场景。核心理念是跨层协同设计与工作负载自适应可编程性,以在大规模演进的应用领域中保持高效率与通用性。进一步指出,电子-光子设计自动化(EPDA)将至关重要,可实现仿真、逆向设计、系统建模与物理实现之间的闭环协同优化。本文勾画了从实验室原型到可扩展、可复现的电子-光子生态系统的发展路线图,旨在引导中国科研界迈向自动化、系统中心化的光子智能新阶段。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
The exponential growth of machine-intelligence workloads is colliding with the power, memory, and interconnect limits of the post-Moore era, motivating compute substrates that scale beyond transistor density alone. Integrated photonics is emerging as a candidate for artificial intelligence (AI) acceleration by exploiting optical bandwidth and parallelism to reshape data movement and computation. This review reframes photonic computing from a circuits-and-systems perspective, moving beyond building-block progress toward cross-layer system analysis and full-stack design automation. We synthesize recent advances through a bottleneck-driven taxonomy that delineates the operating regimes and scaling trends where photonics can deliver end-to-end sustained benefits. A central theme is cross-layer co-design and workload-adaptive programmability to sustain high efficiency and versatility across evolving application domains at scale. We further argue that Electronic-Photonic Design Automation (EPDA) will be pivotal, enabling closed-loop co-optimization across simulation, inverse design, system modeling, and physical implementation. By charting a roadmap from laboratory prototypes to scalable, reproducible electronic-photonic ecosystems, this review aims to guide the CAS community toward an automated, system-centric era of photonic machine intelligence.
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