Efficient neural network accelerators with optical computing and communication

Conventional electronic Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) accelerators focus on architecture design and numerical computation optimization to improve the training efficiency. However, these approaches have recently encountered bottlenecks in terms of energy efficiency computing performance, which leads an increase interest photonic accelerator. Photonic architectures with low consumption, high transmission speed bandwidth been considered as important role for generation architectures. In this paper, provide a better understanding optical technology used ANN acceleration, we present comprehensive review efficient communication accelerators. The related devices are investigated application ANNs classification existing solutions is proposed that categorized into acceleration according effects Moreover, discuss challenges neural network highlight most promising future research opportunities field.