VCSELs for fast neuromorphic photonic systems operating at GHz rates

Matěj Hejda; Joshua Robertson; Julián Bueno; Antonio Hurtado

VCSELs for fast neuromorphic photonic systems operating at GHz rates

Matěj Hejda, Joshua Robertson, Julián Bueno, Antonio Hurtado

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Abstract

We report experimentally on VCSEL-based artificial optical spiking neurons with ultrafast spiking refractory period; hence allowing operation at GHz rates. This feature is used to demonstrate all-optical digital-to-spiking information format conversion at 1.0 Gbps.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2020 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition, OFC 2020 - Proceedings
Place of Publication	Piscataway, N.J.
Publisher	IEEE
Number of pages	3
ISBN (Electronic)	9781943580712
Publication status	Published - 13 May 2020
Event	2020 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition, OFC 2020 - San Diego, United States Duration: 8 Mar 2020 → 12 Mar 2020

Publication series

Name	2020 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition, OFC 2020 - Proceedings

Conference

Conference	2020 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition, OFC 2020
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Diego
Period	8/03/20 → 12/03/20

Funding

This work was supported by the Office of Naval Research Global (Grant ONRGNICOP-N62909-18-1-2027), the European Commission (Grant 828841-ChipAI-H2020-FETOPEN-2018-2020) and the EPSRC Doctoral Training Partnership (EP/N509760).

Keywords

high speed optical techniques
neuromorphic photonic systems
optical neural nets
semiconductor lasers
surface emitting lasers

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Hejda, M, Robertson, J, Bueno, J & Hurtado, A 2020, VCSELs for fast neuromorphic photonic systems operating at GHz rates. in 2020 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition, OFC 2020 - Proceedings. 2020 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition, OFC 2020 - Proceedings, IEEE, Piscataway, N.J., 2020 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition, OFC 2020, San Diego, United States, 8/03/20.

VCSELs for fast neuromorphic photonic systems operating at GHz rates. / Hejda, Matěj; Robertson, Joshua; Bueno, Julián et al.
2020 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition, OFC 2020 - Proceedings. Piscataway, N.J.: IEEE, 2020. (2020 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition, OFC 2020 - Proceedings).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution book

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VCSELs for fast neuromorphic photonic systems operating at GHz rates

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