Table 2 Comparison between the performance of various reconfigurable photonic material.

From: Reconfigurable magneto-optical diffractive neural network with enhanced optical phase modulation

Material

Static power

consumption

Switching energy

per pixel

Switching speed

Switching

durability

LC38

2.7 W

5.7 nW

0.82 ms

High

PCM23

0 W

Amo : 37.9 nJ

Cry : 153 nJ

Amo : 1.4 µs

Cry : 10 µs

100 cycles

MO

0 W

~ 192 nJ

2.4 ns37

High

  1. * Amo: amorphous phase, Cry: crystalline phase.