{"title":"Ultra-compact Photonic Encoder for Optoelectronic Fusion Computing","authors":"Wei Cheng, Chongchong Ran, Changmao Deng, ZheCheng Zhu, Lehan Zhao, Xing Mou, Jiagui Wu, Yaohua Wang","doi":"10.1021/acsphotonics.6c01403","DOIUrl":"10.1021/acsphotonics.6c01403","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Photonic encoders (PEs) provide high-speed optical frontends foroptoelectronic fusion computing by transforming input data into compactfeature representations before electronic processing. However, thelarge footprint of existing photonic encoder architectures limitsthe integration density required for high-dimensional data processing.Here, we propose an ultracompact photonic encoder (UC-PE) implementedon a standard silicon-on-insulator platform, leveraging a fabrication-awareinverse-design strategy. The footprint of the UC-PE is only 33.28μm<sup>2</sup>, and the device works as a fixed passive opticalencoder without task-specific photonic reconfiguration. The UC-PEis integrated into a hybrid optoelectronic computing system, wherethe optical front end generates compact feature maps and the electronicbackend performs task-dependent learning. For image classification,the system achieves 94.29% accuracy on the MNIST data set and maintainsclassification capability on texture-rich Fashion-MNIST data set withoutphotonic hardware reconfiguration. Beyond classification, the systemperforms image compression and reconstruction with a mean PSNR of28.53 dB. These results indicate that the UC-PE can reduce the footprintbarrier of photonic encoders and provide a compact route toward high-throughputoptoelectronic fusion computing.</p>","PeriodicalId":23,"journal":{"name":"ACS Photonics","volume":"13 19","pages":"5724–5733"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2026-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149049548","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ACS PhotonicsPub Date : 2026-10-07Epub Date: 2026-09-28DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.6c01728
Serhii Derenko, Lidón Gil-Escrig, Joost W. C. Reinders, Cristina Roldán-Carmona, Daniel Tordera, Michele Sessolo
{"title":"Monolithically Integrated Perovskites for High-Performance Vapor-Deposited Narrowband Photodetectors","authors":"Serhii Derenko, Lidón Gil-Escrig, Joost W. C. Reinders, Cristina Roldán-Carmona, Daniel Tordera, Michele Sessolo","doi":"10.1021/acsphotonics.6c01728","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsphotonics.6c01728","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Narrowband photodetectors, owing to their intrinsic spectralselectivity,are essential for applications such as optical communication and imaging.One strategy to preserve the high quantum efficiency of thin photodiodesis to combine them with optical filters. However, externally integratedfilters increase device complexity and compromise robustness, whileelectrically active integrated filters generate parasitic photocurrentthat limits spectral rejection. Here, we monolithically integratean optically active but electrically passive perovskite filter withinthe photodetector architecture, and compare its performance with thatof a conventional external filter configuration. In-depth characterizationof both device designs shows that the integrated architecture preservesthe performance of the active photodiode while providing narrowbandoperation, with a full width at half maximum (FWHM) of 50 nm at 750nm and a specific detectivity of 1 × 10<sup>13</sup> Jones at−0.5 V. Beyond its higher responsivity, the integrated deviceshows no observable filter degradation after three months of storagein air, in contrast to the nonintegrated configuration. These resultsdemonstrate that monolithic integration of an electrically passiveperovskite filter enables stable, high-performance narrowband photodetectorswithout compromising device performance.</p>","PeriodicalId":23,"journal":{"name":"ACS Photonics","volume":"13 19","pages":"5868–5875"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2026-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149093676","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bidirectional\u0000Chiral-Achiral Coupling for Tunable\u0000Lateral Optical Forces in Nanoparticle Systems","authors":"Lv Feng,Ruohu Zhang,Zhigang Li,Bingjue Li,Binfeng Yun,Guanghao Rui","doi":"10.1021/acsphotonics.6c01956","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsphotonics.6c01956","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Light-induced optical forces provide a powerful route for manipulating nanoparticles, and chiral optical forces are particularly important for enantioselective trapping, separation, and sensing. Existing studies have mainly focused on the force response of chiral nanoparticles themselves, while the mutual photomechanical coupling between chiral and achiral nanoparticles remains insufficiently understood. Here, we reveal a bidirectional optical-force coupling mechanism in chiral-achiral nanoparticle systems. Under linearly polarized plane-wave illumination, an achiral nanoparticle can experience a tunable lateral optical force when coupled to a neighboring chiral nanoparticle. This counterintuitive force originates from chirality-mediated mirror-symmetry breaking in the coupled scattering process, which generates an asymmetric transverse momentum flow in the scattered field. The force direction reverses when the handedness of the chiral particle is inverted, and it can also be switched by rotating the incident polarization. Conversely, adjacent achiral Mie resonators can reshape and enhance the local electromagnetic field around a small chiral particle, leading to a substantially amplified chirality-dependent lateral force. Furthermore, by extending the system from spherical chiral particles to structurally chiral helical nanostructures, we show that chirality transfer remains robust and can further reverse the direction of the lateral force on adjacent achiral particles. These results provide a mechanistic understanding of chirality transfer and near-field-enhanced optical forces in hybrid chiral-achiral nanoparticle systems and suggest new opportunities for enantioselective optical manipulation, force-based chiral sensing, and chiral nanophotonic device design.","PeriodicalId":23,"journal":{"name":"ACS Photonics","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2026-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149092498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}