Wave Engineering Laboratory

WEL aims to develop photonic computing platforms for AI & Quantum and explore their applications!

• Electronic platforms are approaching performance boundaries in computational tasks due to limited processing speed, high energy consumption, increasing thermal noise, and unwanted quantum effects. 

• Such limitations are present not only in conventional computation using von Neumann architecture, but also in emerging computing systems, such as AI, neuromorphic computing, and quantum computation.

• Light can serve as an ideal platform to address the listed issues due to the fascinating features of photons
  : ultra-broad bandwidth, utmost flight speed, minimal inter-carrier interactions, and stable quantum states. 

• This is the starting point of WELab: We aims to realize Light-based AI/Neuromorphic/Quantum Computations!

• The solutions require research on "Programmable Photonics", "Nanophotonics", and "Quantum Systems".