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Acta Optica Sinica, Volume. 45, Issue 14, 1420002(2025)

Key Technologies and Advances in Photonic Neural Networks (Invited)

Qipeng Yang¹, Ye Tian¹, Shuhan Yue¹, Xueling Wei¹, Zenan Wu¹, Bowen Bai¹, Haowen Shu¹, Weiwei Hu¹, and Xingjun Wang^1,2,3、*

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¹State Key Laboratory of Photonics and Communications, School of Electronics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China

²Frontiers Science Center for Nano-Optoelectronics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China

³Yangtze Delta Institute of Optoelectronics, Peking University, Nantong 226010, Jiangsu , China

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Category: Optics in Computing

Received: Apr. 23, 2025

Accepted: Jun. 12, 2025

Published Online: Jul. 22, 2025

The Author Email: Xingjun Wang (xjwang@pku.edu.cn)

DOI:10.3788/AOS250986

CSTR:32393.14.AOS250986

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