A silicon photonic modulator neuron

Abstract

There has been a recently renewed interest in neuromorphic photonics, a field promising to access pivotal and unexplored regimes of machine intelligence. Progress has been made on isolated neurons and analog interconnects; nevertheless, this renewal has yet to produce a demonstration of a silicon photonic neuron capable of interacting with other like neurons. We report a modulator-class photonic neuron fabricated in a conventional silicon photonic process line. We demonstrate behaviors of transfer function configurability, fan-in, inhibition, time-resolved processing, and, crucially, autaptic cascadability -- a sufficient set of behaviors for a device to act as a neuron participating in a network of like neurons. The silicon photonic modulator neuron constitutes the final piece needed to make photonic neural networks fully integrated on currently available silicon photonic platforms.

arXiv comment16 pages, 10 figures

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