Table 1 Comparison of different on-chip ONNs

From: Scaling up for end-to-end on-chip photonic neural network inference

Architecture

Input size

Num. of optical layers

Latency

Energy efficiency

Optical source

Operation domain

Ref. 42

15

1

N.A.

144.2 pJ/OP

Coherent

Positive

Ref. 6

6

3

410 ps

9 pJ/OP

Coherent

Complex

Ref. 5

30

3

570 ps

14 pJ/OP

Coherent

Positive

This work

64

4

4.1 nsa

121.7 pJ/OPa

Partially coherent

Real

  1. aRC latency of NAF is considered in every inference