Ultrafast reconfigurable topological-modulators-based photonic processing accelerator

The rise of artificial intelligence has triggered exponential growth in data volume, demanding rapid and efficient processing. High-speed, energy-efficient, and parallel-scalable computing hardware is thus increasingly critical. We demonstrate a wafer-scale non-volatile photonic computing chip using topological modulators. Leveraging the GHz-speed electro-optic response and nonvolatility of ferroelectric lead zirconate titanate (PZT) thin films via topological photonic confinement, our chip enables 1,000× accelerated reconfiguration, near-zero static-power operation, and a computational density of 266 trillion operations per second per square millimeter (TOPS/mm²). A 16-channel wavelength-space multiplexed chip delivers 1.92 TOPS throughput with 95.64% digit-recognition accuracy and 94.5% precision for solving time-varying partial differential equations. Additionally, the chip supports functional reconfiguration for high bandwidth density optical I/O. This work establishes ferroelectric topological photonics for efficient high-speed photonic tensor processing. This work demonstrates a non-volatile photonic computing chip based on topological modulators on a PZT platform. The chip achieves 110 GHz bandwidth, 266 TOPS/mm² compute density, and near-zero static power. A 16-channel chip delivers 1.92 TOPS throughput with over 94.5% accuracy for digit recognition and PDE solving.