Publications | Logan Wright

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Logan Wright Applied Physics Laboratory

Publications

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Preprints

Y. Zhao, M.M. Stein, F.O. Wu, R. Yanagimoto, B.A. Ash, M.M. Sohoni, L.G. Wright, T. Onodera, and P.L. McMahon “Lithography-free in situ photonic inverse design”, arXiv:2610.10404

B.A. Ash, R. Yanagimoto, M.M. Sohoni, Y. Xu, Y. Zhao, M.M. Stein, F.O. Wu, M. Jankowski, L.G. Wright, T. Onodera, and P.L. McMahon “Programmable nonlinearity within nanophotonic waveguides”, arXiv:2610.02024

L.G. Wright, T. Wang, T. Onodera, and P.L. McMahon “Physical Foundation Models: Fixed hardware implementations of large-scale neural networks”, arXiv:2604.27911

Z. Wang, F. Xia, L.G. Wright, T. Onodera, M.M. Stein, J. Hu, P.L. McMahon, and S. Gigan “TRON: Trainable, architecture-reconfigurable random optical neural networks”, arXiv:2604.16228

S. Prabhu, S.A. Khan, X. Song, M. Ouellet, R. Yanagimoto, S. Roy, A. Senanian, L.G. Wright, V. Fatemi, and P.L. McMahon “Quantum computational displacement sensing”, arXiv:2604.13177

M.M. Sohoni, J. Laydevant, M. Ouellet, S.-Y. Ma, R. Yanagimoto, B.A. Ash, T. Onodera, T. Wang, L.G. Wright, and P.L. McMahon “Ultra-low-light computer vision using trained photon correlations”, arXiv:2604.11993

S.-Y. Ma, J. Laydevant, M.M. Sohoni, L.G. Wright, T. Wang, and P.L. McMahon “Machine vision with small numbers of detected photons per inference”, arXiv:2603.23974

S.A. Khan, S. Prabhu, L.G. Wright, and P.L. McMahon “Quantum computational sensing”, arXiv:2507.16918

M. Aifer, Z. Belateche, S. Bramhavar, K.Y. Camsari, P.J. Coles, G. Crooks, D.J. Durian, A.J. Liu, A. Marchenkova, A.J. Martinez, P.L. McMahon, F. Sbahi, B. Weiner, and L.G. Wright “Solving the compute crisis with physics-based ASICs”, arXiv:2507.10463

D. Brunner, B.J. Shastri, M.A. Al Qadasi, et al. (incl. L.G. Wright) “Roadmap on neuromorphic photonics”, arXiv:2501.07917

F. Presutti, L.G. Wright, S.-Y. Ma, T. Wang, B.K. Malia, T. Onodera, and P.L. McMahon “Highly multimode visible squeezed light with programmable spectral correlations through broadband up-conversion”, arXiv:2401.06119

M.G. Anderson, S.-Y. Ma, T. Wang, L.G. Wright, and P.L. McMahon “Optical transformers”, arXiv:2302.10360

2026

B. Hosseini Fakhar, B. Azizi, Z. Norouzinik, H. Soltanian, S. Brochu, L.G. Wright, F. Légaré, and R. Safaei (2026) “Spatially confined self-compressed blue-shifted few-cycle pulses from gas-filled capillary fibers”, Optics Letters 51, 5573-5576

S. Carbajo, A. Borthakur, J. Hirschman, ..., L.G. Wright, and X. Wu (2026) “Structured light at the extreme: harnessing spatiotemporal control for high-field laser–matter interactions”, Advanced Photonics 8, 044003

S.A. Khan, S. Prabhu, L.G. Wright, and P.L. McMahon (2026) “Quantum computational sensing using quantum signal processing, quantum neural networks, and Hamiltonian engineering”, npj Quantum Information

V. Cimini, M.M. Sohoni, F. Presutti, B.K. Malia, S.-Y. Ma, R. Yanagimoto, T. Wang, T. Onodera, L.G. Wright, and P.L. McMahon (2026) “Large-scale quantum reservoir computing using a Gaussian boson sampler”, npj Quantum Information

R. Yanagimoto, B.A. Ash, M.M. Sohoni, M.M. Stein, Y. Zhao, F. Presutti, M. Jankowski, L.G. Wright, T. Onodera, and P.L. McMahon (2026) “Programmable on-chip nonlinear photonics”, Nature 649, 330-337

T. Onodera, M.M. Stein, B.A. Ash, M.M. Sohoni, M. Bosch, R. Yanagimoto, M. Jankowski, T.P. McKenna, T. Wang, G. Shvets, M.R. Shcherbakov, L.G. Wright, and P.L. McMahon (2026) “Arbitrary control over multimode wave propagation for machine learning”, Nature Physics 22, 164-171

2025

A. Momeni, B. Rahmani, B. Scellier, L.G. Wright, P.L. McMahon, C.C. Wanjura, Y. Li, A. Skalli, ..., and R. Fleury (2025) “Training of physical neural networks”, Nature 645, 53-61

S.-Y. Ma, T. Wang, J. Laydevant, L.G. Wright, and P.L. McMahon (2025) “Quantum-limited stochastic optical neural networks operating at a few quanta per activation”, Nature Communications 16, 359

2024

A. Senanian, S. Prabhu, V. Kremenetski, S. Roy, Y. Cao, J. Kline, T. Onodera, L.G. Wright, X. Wu, V. Fatemi, and P.L. McMahon (2024) “Microwave signal processing using an analog quantum reservoir computer”, Nature Communications 15, 7490

R. Yanagimoto, E. Ng, M. Jankowski, R. Nehra, T.P. McKenna, T. Onodera, L.G. Wright, R. Hamerly, A. Marandi, M.M. Fejer, and H. Mabuchi (2024) “Mesoscopic ultrafast nonlinear optics—the emergence of multimode quantum non-Gaussian physics”, Optica 11, 896-918

J. Laydevant*, L.G. Wright*, T. Wang, and P.L. McMahon (2024) “The hardware is the software”, Neuron 112, 180-183

2023

Y. Shen, Q. Zhan, L.G. Wright, D.N. Christodoulides, F.W. Wise, ..., and A. Forbes (2023) “Roadmap on spatiotemporal light fields”, Journal of Optics 25, 093001

A. Senanian, L.G. Wright, P.F. Wade, H.K. Doyle, and P.L. McMahon (2023) “Programmable large-scale simulation of bosonic transport in optical synthetic frequency lattices”, Nature Physics 19, 1333-1339

T. Wang*, M.M. Sohoni*, L.G. Wright, M.M. Stein, S.-Y. Ma, T. Onodera, M.G. Anderson, and P.L. McMahon (2023) “Image sensing with multilayer nonlinear optical neural networks”, Nature Photonics 17, 408-415

2022

L.G. Wright*, T. Onodera*, M.M. Stein, T. Wang, D.T. Schachter, Z. Hu, and P.L. McMahon (2022) “Deep physical neural networks trained with backpropagation”, Nature 601, 549–555

L.G. Wright, F.O. Wu, D.N. Christodoulides, and F.W. Wise (2022) “Physics of highly multimode nonlinear optical systems”, Nature Physics 18, 1018-1030

L.G. Wright, W.H. Renninger, D.N. Christodoulides, and F.W. Wise (2022) “Nonlinear multimode photonics: nonlinear optics with many degrees of freedom”, Optica 9, 824-841

H. Pourbeyram*, P. Sidorenko*, F.O. Wu*, N. Bender, L.G. Wright, D.N. Christodoulides, and F.W. Wise (2022) “Direct observations of thermalization to a Rayleigh–Jeans distribution in multimode optical fibres”, Nature Physics 18, 695-690

R. Yanagimoto, E. Ng, A. Yamamura, T. Onodera, L.G. Wright, M. Jankowski, M. M. Fejer, P.L. McMahon, H. Mabuchi (2022) “Onset of non-Gaussian quantum physics in pulsed squeezing with mesoscopic fields”, Optica 9 (4), 379-390

T. Wang, S. Ma, L.G. Wright, T. Onodera, B. Richards, and P. L. McMahon (2022) “A photonic neural network using less than 1 photon per weight multiplication,” Nature Communications 13, 123

2021

R. Yanagimoto, E. Ng, L.G. Wright, T. Onodera, and H. Mabuchi (2021) “Efficient simulation of ultrafast quantum nonlinear optics with matrix product states,”, Optica 8, 1306-1315

2020

L.G. Wright, P. Sidorenko, H. Pourbeyram, Z.M. Ziegler, A. Isichenko, B.A. Malomed, C.R. Menyuk, D.N. Christodoulides and F.W. Wise (2020) “Mechanisms of Spatiotemporal Mode-Locking”, Nature Physics 16, 565–570

L.G. Wright and F.W .Wise (2020) “Exotic waves in multimode hollow-core fibres,” Nature Photonics 14 (12), 713-714

R. Yanagimoto*, T. Onodera*, E. Ng, L.G. Wright, P.L. McMahon, and H. Mabuchi (2020) “Engineering a Kerr-based Deterministic Cubic Phase Gate via Gaussian Operations”, Physical Review Letters 124, 240503

2019

L.G. Wright and P.L. McMahon “The Capacity of Quantum Neural Networks”, arXiv:1908.01364

2018

L.G. Wright, Z.M. Ziegler, P.M. Lushnikov, Z. Zhu, M.A. Eftekhar, D.N. Christodoulides, and F.W. Wise (2018) “Multimode Nonlinear Fiber Optics: Massively Parallel Numerical Solver, Tutorial and Outlook,” IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics 24 (3), 1-16.

P. Sidorenko, W. Fu, L.G. Wright, M. Olivier, and F.W. Wise (2018) “Self-seeded, multi-megawatt, Mamyshev oscillator,” Optics Letters 43 (11), 2672-2675

W. Fu, L.G. Wright, P. Sidorenko, S. Backus, and F.W. Wise (2018) ”Several new directions for ultrafast fiber lasers,” Optics Express 26 (8), 9432-9463

2017

L.G. Wright, D.N. Christodoulides, and F.W. Wise (2017) “Spatiotemporal mode-locking in multimode fiber lasers,” Science 358 (6359), 94-97

W. Fu, L.G. Wright, and F.W. Wise (2017) “High-power femtosecond pulses without a modelocked laser,” Optica 4 (7), 831-834

Z. Liu, Z. Ziegler, L.G. Wright, and F.W. Wise (2017) “Megawatt peak power from a Mamyshev oscillator,” Optica 4 (6), 649-654

M. A. Eftekhar, L.G. Wright, M. S. Mills, M. Kolesik, R. Amezcua Correa, F. W. Wise, and D. N. Christodoulides (2017) “Versatile supercontinuum generation in parabolic multimode optical fibers,” Optics Express 25, 9078-9087

2016

L.G. Wright, Z. Liu, D.A. Nolan, M.-J. Li, D.N. Christodoulides, and F.W. Wise (2016) "Self-organized instability in graded-index multimode fibres,” Nature Photonics 10, 771–776.

Y. Tang, L.G. Wright, K. Charan, T. Wang, C. Xu, and F.W. Wise (2016) “Generation of intense 100 fs solitons tunable from 2 to 4.3 μm in fluoride fiber,” Optica 3 (9), 948-951

Z. Zhu, L.G. Wright, D.N. Christodoulides, and F.W. Wise (2016) “Observation of multimode solitons in few-mode fiber,” Optics Letters 41 (20), 4819-4822

A. Fusaro, J. Garnier, C. Michel, G. Xu, J. Fatome, L.G. Wright, F.W. Wise, and A. Picozzi (2016) “Decoupled polarization dynamics of incoherent waves and bimodal spectral incoherent solitons,” Optics Letters 41 (17), 3992-3995

Z. Liu, L.G. Wright, D.N. Christodoulides, and F.W. Wise (2016) “Kerr self-cleaning of femtosecond-pulsed beams in graded-index multimode fiber,” Optics Letters 41 (16), 3675-3678

G. Lopez-Galmiche, Z.S. Eznaveh, M.A. Eftekhar, J.A. Lopez, L.G. Wright, F.W. Wise, D.N. Christodoulides, and R. Amezcua Correa (2016) “Visible supercontinuum generation in a graded index multimode fiber pumped at 1064 nm,” Optics Letters 41 (11), 2553-2556

2015

L.G. Wright, S. Wabnitz, D.N. Christodoulides, and F.W. Wise (2015) “Ultrabroadband Dispersive Radiation by Spatiotemporal Oscillation of Multimode Waves,” Physical Review Letters 115 (22), 223902

L.G. Wright, D.N. Christodoulides, and F.W. Wise (2015) “Controllable spatiotemporal nonlinear effects in multimode fibres,” Nature Photonics 9 (5), 306-310

L.G. Wright, W.H. Renninger, D.N. Christodoulides, and F.W. Wise (2015) “Spatiotemporal dynamics of multimode optical solitons,” Optics Express 23 (3), 3492-3506

A. Chong, L.G. Wright, and F.W. Wise (2015) “Ultrafast fiber lasers based on self-similar pulse evolution: a review of current progress,” Reports on Progress in Physics 78 (11), 113901

2014

L.G. Wright, W.H Renninger, and F.W. Wise (2014) “Universal Three-Dimensional Optical Logic,” arXiv:1407.4947

E.S. Lamb, L.G. Wright, and F.W. Wise (2014) “Divided-pulse lasers,” Optics Letters 39 (9), 2775-2777

P.J.L. Webster, L.G. Wright, Y. Ji, C.M. Galbraith, A.W. Kinross, C. Van Vlack, and J.M. Fraser (2014) “Automatic laser welding and milling with in situ inline coherent imaging,” Optics Letters 39 (21), 6217-6220

2013

K.X.Z. Yu, L.G. Wright, P.J.L. Webster, and J.M. Fraser (2013) “Deep nonlinear ablation of silicon with a quasi-continuous wave fiber laser at 1070 nm,” Optics Letters 38 (11), 1799-1801

J. Lavoie, J.M. Donohue, L.G. Wright, A. Fedrizzi, and K.J. Resch (2013) “Spectral compression of single photons,” Nature Photonics 7 (5), 363-366

2012 and before

L.G. Wright, A. Kanabar, E. Moult, S. Rubab and S.A.M Hesp (2011) “Chemical Aging of Asphalt Cements from a Northern Ontario Pavement Trial,” International Journal of Pavement Research and Technology 4, 259-268

P.J.L. Webster, L.G. Wright, K.D. Mortimer, B.Y.C. Leung, J.X.Z. Yu and J.M. Fraser (2011) “Automatic real-time guidance of laser machining with inline coherent imaging,” Journal of Laser Applications 23, 022001

S. Rubab, K. Burke, L.G. Wright, S.A.M. Hesp (2011) “Effects of Engine Oil Residues on Asphalt Cement Quality,” Proceedings of the 56th Annual Conference of the Canadian Technical Asphalt Association, 01368658

1001 Inventions that Changed the World, 2009 Cassell Illustrated, ISBN-10: 0764161369

Defining Moments in Science: Over a Century of the Greatest Discoveries, Experiments, Inventions, People, Publications, and Events that Rocked the World, 2008 Cassell Illustrated, ISBN-10:1844035891

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