March 2026

Conference Paper

Synthetic-domain Neural Networks using Integrated Nonlinear Phononics on Lithium Niobate

By:
Ji, Jun; Xi, Zichen; Thomas, Joseph; Srijanto, Bernadeta R; Kravchenko, Ivan I; Jin, Ming; Zhu, Yizheng; Xiong, Wenjie; Shao, Linbo
Book Title:
Proceedings: CLEO 2025
Publication Date:
March 12, 2026
Publisher Location:
Optica Publishing Group, 2025, Long Beach, California, United States of America
Conference Name:
Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO): Science and Innovations 2025
Conference Location:
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Conference Sponsor:
OSA, APS
View DOI Listing:
https://doi.org/10.1364/CLEO_SI.2025.SS103_3

Abstract

Leveraging strong second-order nonlinearities of lithium niobate, we demonstrate synthetic-domain neural networks with both efficient linear and nonlinear operations. A high accuracy of 98.2% is experimentally achieved for a four-class classification task.