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US 12,293,282 · App. 18/610,442 · Granted May 6, 2025

Optoelectronic computing systems

Inventors: Yichen Shen (Hangzhou, CN); Huaiyu Meng (Medford, MA); Li Jing (Cambridge, MA); Rumen Dangovski (Cambridge, MA); Peng Xie (Dublin, CA); Matthew Khoury (Cambridge, MA); Cheng-Kuan Lu (Littleton, MA); Ronald Gagnon (North Grafton, MA); Maurice Steinman (Marlborough, MA); Jianhua Wu (Quincy, MA); Arash Hosseinzadeh (Andover, MA)
Assignee: Lightelligence PTE. Ltd.
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Patent No.
US 12,293,282
App. No.
18/610,442
Filed
Mar 20, 2024
Granted
May 6, 2025
Kind
B2
Art Unit
2459
USPC
706/19
Abstract

Systems and methods that include: providing input information in an electronic format; converting at least a part of the electronic input information into an optical input vector; optically transforming the optical input vector into an optical output vector based on an optical matrix multiplication; converting the optical output vector into an electronic format; and electronically applying a non-linear transformation to the electronically converted optical output vector to provide output information in an electronic format. In some examples, a set of multiple input values are encoded on respective optical signals carried by optical waveguides. For each of at least two subsets of one or more optical signals, a corresponding set of one or more copying modules splits the subset of one or more optical signals into two or more copies of the optical signals. For each of at least two copies of a first subset of one or more optical signals, a corresponding multiplication module multiplies the one or more optical signals of the first subset by one or more matrix element values using optical amplitude modulation. For results of two or more of the multiplication modules, a summation module produces an electrical signal that represents a sum of the results of the two or more of the multiplication modules.

Claims (104)

1. A system, comprising:

a first unit comprising electronic circuitry;

a controller comprising integrated circuitry configured to perform operations comprising:

receiving a computation request comprising an input dataset that comprises a first digital input vector or matrix; and

generating, through the first unit, a first plurality of modulator control signals based on the first digital input vector or matrix;

a processor unit comprising:

a plurality of optical modulators coupled to a light source and the first unit, the plurality of optical modulators being configured to generate an optical input vector or matrix by modulating a plurality of light outputs provided by the light source based on the first plurality of modulator control signals, the optical input vector or matrix comprising a plurality of modulated optical signals; and

a matrix multiplication unit coupled to the plurality of optical modulators, the matrix multiplication unit being configured to transform the optical input vector or matrix into an analog output vector or matrix based on a plurality of weights configured in the matrix multiplication unit; and

a second unit comprising electronic circuitry coupled to the matrix multiplication unit and configured to convert the analog output vector or matrix into a digitized output vector or matrix.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein the computation request comprises a first plurality of weight values, the controller is configured to generate through the first unit a first plurality of weight control signals based on the first plurality of weight values, the first unit is configured to provide the first plurality of weight control signals to the matrix multiplication unit, and the matrix multiplication unit is configured to transform the optical input vector or matrix into the analog output vector or matrix based on the first plurality of weight control signals.

3. The system of claim 2 wherein the first unit, the processor unit, the second unit, and the controller are used in an optoelectronical processing loop that is repeated for a plurality of iterations, and the optoelectronical processing loop comprises:

(1) at least a first optical modulation operation based on at least one of the plurality of modulator control signals, and at least a second optical modulation operation based on at least one of the weight control signals, and

(2) at least one of (a) an electrical summation operation or (b) an electrical storage operation.

4. The system of claim 3 wherein the optoelectronical processing loop includes at least one signal path on which there is no more than one first optical modulation operation based on at least one of the plurality of modulator control signals, and no more than one second optical modulation operation based on at least one of the weight control signals performed in a single loop iteration.

5. The system of claim 4 wherein the first optical modulation operation is performed by one of the plurality of optical modulators coupled to the light source and to the matrix multiplication unit, and the second optical modulation operation is performed by an optical modulator included in the matrix multiplication unit.

6. The system of claim 3 wherein the optoelectronical processing loop includes the electrical storage operation, and the electrical storage operation is performed using a memory unit coupled to the controller, and wherein the operations performed by the controller further comprise storing, in the memory unit, the input dataset and the first plurality of weight values.

7. The system of claim 3 wherein the optoelectronical processing loop comprises the electrical summation operation, and the electrical summation operation is performed using an electrical summation module within the matrix multiplication unit;

wherein the electrical summation module is configured to generate an electrical current corresponding to an element of the analog output vector or matrix that represents a sum of respective elements of the optical input vector or matrix multiplied by respective weights.

8. The system of claim 1 wherein the matrix multiplication unit comprises:

a plurality of copying modules, wherein each of the copying modules corresponds to a subset of one or more optical signals of the optical input vector or matrix and is configured to split the subset of one or more optical signals into two or more copies of the optical signals;

a plurality of multiplication modules, wherein each of the multiplication modules corresponds to a subset of one or more optical signals configured to multiply the one or more optical signals of the subset by one or more matrix element values using optical amplitude modulation; and

one or more summation modules, wherein each summation module is configured to produce an electrical signal that represents a sum of the results of two or more of the multiplication modules.

9. The system of claim 8 wherein the copying modules include at least one copying module comprising an optical splitter that sends a predetermined fraction of the power of an optical wave at an input port to a first output port, and sends the remaining fraction of the power of the optical wave at the input port to a second output port.

10. The system of claim 9 wherein the optical splitter comprises a waveguide optical splitter that sends a predetermined fraction of the power of an optical wave guided by an input optical waveguide to a first output optical waveguide, and sends the remaining fraction of the power of the optical wave guided by the input optical waveguide to a second output optical waveguide.

11. The system of claim 10 wherein a guided mode of the input optical waveguide is adiabatically coupled to guided modes of each of the first and second output optical waveguides.

12. The system of claim 9 wherein the optical splitter comprises a beam splitter that includes at least one surface that transmits the predetermined fraction of the power of the optical wave at the input port and reflects the remaining fraction of the power of the optical wave at the input port.

13. The system of claim 8 wherein the multiplication modules include at least one coherence-sensitive multiplication module configured to multiply the one or more optical signals of a first subset by one or more matrix element values using optical amplitude modulation based on interference between optical waves that have a coherence length at least as long as a propagation distance through the coherence-sensitive multiplication module.

14. The system of claim 13 wherein the coherence-sensitive multiplication module comprises a Mach-Zehnder Interferometer (MZI) that is configured to split an optical wave guided by an input optical waveguide into a first optical waveguide arm of the MZI and a second optical waveguide arm of the MZI, the first optical waveguide arm includes a phase shifter that is configured to impart a relative phase shift with respect to a phase delay of the second optical waveguide arm, and the MZI is configured to combine optical waves from the first optical waveguide arm and the second optical waveguide arm into at least one output optical wave that is transmitted to at least one output optical waveguide.

15. The system of claim 14 wherein the MZI is configured to combine optical waves from the first optical waveguide arm and the second optical waveguide arm into each of a first output optical waveguide and a second output optical waveguide;

wherein a first photodetector is configured to receive an optical wave from the first output optical waveguide to generate a first photocurrent;

wherein a second photodetector is configured to receive an optical wave from the second output optical waveguide to generate a second photocurrent, and a result of the coherence-sensitive multiplication module comprises a difference between the first photocurrent and the second photocurrent.

16. The system of claim 13 wherein the coherence-sensitive multiplication module comprises one or more ring resonators, including at least one ring resonator coupled to a first optical waveguide and at least one ring resonator coupled to a second optical waveguide.

17. The system of claim 16 wherein a first photodetector is configured to receive an optical wave from the first optical waveguide to generate a first photocurrent, a second photodetector is configured to receive an optical wave from the second optical waveguide to generate a second photocurrent, and a result of the coherence-sensitive multiplication module comprises a difference between the first photocurrent and the second photocurrent.

18. The system of claim 13 , further comprising, for each copy of a second subset of one or more optical signals, different from the optical signals in the first subset of one or more optical signals, a multiplication module configured to multiply the one or more optical signals of the second subset by one or more matrix element values using optical amplitude modulation.

19. The system of claim 8 wherein one of the copies of a first subset of one or more optical signals includes more than one of the optical signals, and fewer than all of the optical signals, on which multiple input values are encoded.

20. The system of claim 19 , wherein the multiplication module corresponding to the copy of the first subset is configured to multiply the encoded input values by different respective matrix element values.

21. The system of claim 20 , wherein different multiplication modules corresponding to different respective copies of the first subset of one or more optical signals are contained by different devices that are in optical communication to transmit one of the copies of the first subset of one or more optical signals between the different devices.

22. The system of claim 8 wherein the matrix multiplication unit is configured to multiply the input vector by a matrix that includes the one or more matrix element values.

23. The system of claim 22 wherein a set of multiple output values are encoded on respective electrical signals produced by the one or more summation modules, and the output values in the set of multiple output values represent elements of an output vector that results from the input vector being multiplied by the matrix.

24. The system of claim 8 wherein the multiplication modules include at least one coherence-insensitive multiplication module configured to multiply the one or more optical signals of a first subset by one or more matrix element values using optical amplitude modulation based on absorption of energy within an optical wave.

25. The system of claim 24 , wherein the coherence-insensitive multiplication module comprises an electro-absorption modulator.

26. The system of claim 8 wherein one of the copies of a first subset of one or more optical signals consists of a single optical signal on which one of the input values is encoded.

27. The system of claim 26 wherein the multiplication module corresponding to the copy of the first subset is configured to multiply the encoded input value by a single matrix element value.

28. The system of claim 8 wherein two or more of the plurality of optical waveguides, two or more of the plurality of copying modules, two or more of the plurality of multiplication modules, and at least one of the one or more summation modules are arranged on a substrate of a common device.

29. The system of claim 28 wherein the device is configured to perform vector-matrix or matrix-matrix multiplication, wherein an input vector or matrix is provided as a set of optical signals, and an output vector or matrix is provided as a set of electrical signals.

30. The system of claim 8 wherein at least one of the multiplication modules includes an optical amplitude modulator including an input port and two output ports, and a pair of related optical signals is provided from the two output ports such that a difference between amplitudes of the related optical signals corresponds to a result of multiplying an input value by a signed matrix element value.

31. The system of claim 8 , further comprising an accumulator that is configured to integrate an input electrical signal corresponding to an output of a multiplication module or a summation module, wherein the input electrical signal is encoded using a time domain encoding that uses on-off amplitude modulation within each of multiple time slots, and the accumulator is configured to produce an output electrical signal that is encoded with more than two amplitude levels corresponding to different duty cycles of the time domain encoding over the multiple time slots.

32. The system of claim 8 wherein the two or more of the multiplication modules each correspond to a different subset of one or more optical signals.

33. The system of claim 1 wherein the first unit comprises a digital to analog converter (DAC) unit, the second unit comprises an analog to digital converter (ADC) unit, and the matrix multiplication unit comprises:

an optical matrix multiplication unit coupled to the plurality of optical modulators and the DAC unit, the optical matrix multiplication unit being configured to transform the optical input vector or matrix into an optical output vector or matrix based on the plurality of weights; and

a photodetection unit coupled to the optical matrix multiplication unit and configured to generate a plurality of output voltages corresponding to the optical output vector.

34. The system of claim 33 , further comprising:

an analog memory unit arranged between the DAC unit and the plurality of optical modulators, the analog memory unit being configured to store analog voltages and to output the stored analog voltages; and

an analog nonlinearity unit arranged between the photodetection unit and the ADC unit, the analog nonlinearity unit being configured to receive the plurality of output voltages from the photodetection unit, apply a nonlinear transfer function, and output a plurality of transformed output voltages.

35. The system of claim 34 wherein the analog memory unit comprises a plurality of capacitors.

36. The system of claim 34 wherein the analog memory unit is configured to receive and store the plurality of transformed output voltages of the analog nonlinearity unit, and to output the stored plurality of transformed output voltages to the plurality of optical modulators, and

wherein the operations further comprise:

based on generating the first plurality of modulator control signals, storing, in the analog memory unit, the plurality of transformed output voltages of the analog nonlinearity unit;

outputting, through the analog memory unit, the stored transformed output voltages;

obtaining, from the ADC unit, a second plurality of transformed digitized output voltages, the second plurality of transformed digitized output voltages forming a second transformed digital output vector or matrix; and

storing, in the memory unit, the second transformed digital output vector or matrix.

37. The system of claim 33 , further comprising a memory unit configured to store the input dataset, the input dataset of the computation request comprising a plurality of digital input vectors or matrices;

wherein the light source is configured to generate a plurality of wavelengths,

wherein the plurality of optical modulators comprise:

banks of optical modulators configured to generate a plurality of optical input vectors or matrices, each of the banks corresponding to one of the plurality of wavelengths and generating a respective optical input vector or matrix having a respective wavelength; and

an optical multiplexer configured to combine the plurality of optical input vectors or matrices into a combined optical input vector or matrix comprising the plurality of wavelengths;

wherein the photodetection unit is further configured to demultiplex the plurality of wavelengths and to generate a plurality of demultiplexed output voltages, and

wherein the operations comprise:

obtaining, from the ADC unit, a plurality of digitized demultiplexed optical outputs, the plurality of digitized demultiplexed optical outputs forming a plurality of first digital output vectors or matrices, wherein each of the plurality of first digital output vectors or matrices corresponds to one of the plurality of wavelengths;

performing a nonlinear transformation on each of the plurality of first digital output vectors or matrices to generate a plurality of transformed first digital output vectors or matrices; and

storing, in the memory unit, the plurality of transformed first digital output vectors or matrices,

wherein each of the plurality of digital input vectors or matrices corresponds to one of the plurality of optical input vectors or matrices.

38. The system of claim 33 , wherein the photodetection unit comprises:

a plurality of photodetectors; and

a plurality of amplifiers configured to convert photocurrents generated by the photodetectors into the plurality of output voltages.

39. The system of claim 1 wherein the one or more summation modules include at least one summation module comprising: (1) two or more input conductors that each carries an electrical signal in the form of an input current whose amplitude represents a respective result of a respective one of the multiplication modules, and (2) at least one output conductor that carries the electrical signal that represents the sum of the respective results in the form of an output current that is proportional to the sum of the input currents.

40. The system of claim 39 wherein at least a first input current of the input currents is provided in the form of at least one photocurrent generated by at least one photodetector that receives an optical signal generated by a first multiplication module of the multiplication modules.

41. The system of claim 40 wherein the first input current is provided in the form of a difference between two photocurrents generated by different respective photodetectors that receive different respective optical signals both generated by the first multiplication module.

42. The system of claim 39 wherein the two or more input conductors and the output conductor comprise wires that meet at one or more junctions among the wires, and the output current is substantially equal to the sum of the input currents.

43. The system of claim 1 , comprising a memory unit configured to store a dataset and a plurality of weights.

44. The system of claim 43 wherein the integrated circuitry of the controller is further configured to perform operations comprising storing, in the memory unit, the input dataset and the first plurality of weights.

45. The system of claim 1 , comprising a plurality of optical waveguides coupled between the optical modulators and the matrix multiplication unit, wherein the optical input vector or matrix comprises a set of multiple input values that are encoded on respective optical signals carried by the optical waveguides, and each of the optical signals carried by one of the optical waveguides comprises an optical wave having a common wavelength that is substantially identical for all of the optical signals.

46. The system of claim 45 wherein at least one of the plurality of optical waveguides comprises an optical fiber that is coupled to an optical coupler that couples a guided mode of the optical fiber to a free-space propagation mode.

47. The system of claim 1 wherein the first unit comprises a digital to analog converter (DAC).

48. The system of claim 1 wherein the second unit comprises an analog to digital converter (ADC).

49. The system of claim 1 wherein the controller comprises an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), and the controller is in communication with a general purpose data processor and configured to receive the computation request from the general purpose data processor.

50. The system of claim 1 wherein the first unit, the processing unit, the second unit, and the controller are disposed on at least one of a multi-chip module or an integrated circuit; and

wherein the controller is configured to receive the computation request from a second data processor, wherein the second data processor is external to the multi-chip module or the integrated circuit, the second data processor is coupled to the multi-chip module or the integrated circuit through a communication channel, and the processor unit can process data at a data rate that is at least an order of magnitude greater than a data rate of the communication channel.

51. The system of claim 1 wherein the integrated circuitry of the controller is configured to generate the first plurality of modulator control signals at a rate greater than or equal to 8 GHz.

52. The system of claim 1 wherein the system comprises a memory unit configured to store the input dataset, the second unit comprises an analog to digital converter (ADC) unit, and the computation request comprises a plurality of digital input vectors or matrices,

wherein the light source is configured to generate a plurality of wavelengths,

wherein the plurality of optical modulators comprise:

banks of optical modulators configured to generate a plurality of optical input vectors or matrices, each of the banks corresponding to one of the plurality of wavelengths and generating a respective optical input vector or matrix having a respective wavelength; and

an optical multiplexer configured to combine the plurality of optical input vectors or matrices into a combined optical input vector or matrix comprising the plurality of wavelengths; and

wherein the operations comprise:

obtaining, from the ADC unit, a first plurality of digitized optical outputs corresponding to the optical output vector or matrix comprising the plurality of wavelengths, the first plurality of digitized optical outputs forming a first digital output vector or matrix;

performing a nonlinear transformation on the first digital output vector or matrix to generate a first transformed digital output vector or matrix; and

storing, in the memory unit, the first transformed digital output vector or matrix.

53. The system of claim 1 wherein the light source comprises:

a laser source configured to generate light; and

an optical power splitter configured to split the light generated by the laser source into the plurality of light outputs, wherein each of the plurality of light outputs have substantially equal powers.

54. The system of claim 1 wherein the plurality of optical modulators comprise at least one of Mach-Zehnder Interferometer (MZI) modulators, ring resonator modulators, or electro-absorption modulators.

55. The system of claim 1 wherein the integrated circuitry is an application specific integrated circuit.

56. The system of claim 1 wherein the matrix multiplication unit comprises passive diffractive optical elements that are configured to transform the optical input vector or matrix into an optical output vector or matrix based on a plurality of weights defined by the passive diffractive optical elements.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 21, 2024
From: SHEN, YICHEN; JING, LI; XIE, PENG; DANGOVSKI, RUMEN; MENG, HUAIYU; KHOURY, MATTHEW; LU, CHENG-KUAN; GAGNON, RONALD; STEINMAN, MAURICE; WU, JIANHUA; HOSSEINZADEH, ARASH
To: LIGHTELLIGENCE, INC.
Reel/Frame 066851/0123 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 21, 2024
From: LIGHTELLIGENCE, INC.
To: LIGHTELLIGENCE PTE. LTD.
Reel/Frame 066851/0204 →
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