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Design Automation of Photonic Resonator Weights
Thomas Ferreira de Lima, Eli A. Doris, Simon Bilodeau +8
Neuromorphic photonic processors based on resonator weight banks are an emerging candidate technology for enabling modern artificial intelligence (AI) in high speed, analog systems…
Silicon photonic-electronic neural network for fibre nonlinearity compensation
Chaoran Huang, Shinsuke Fujisawa, Thomas Ferreira de Lima +12
In optical communication systems, fibre nonlinearity is the major obstacle in increasing the transmission capacity. Typically, digital signal processing techniques and hardware are…
Silicon microring synapses enable photonic deep learning beyond 9-bit precision
Weipeng Zhang, Chaoran Huang, Hsuan-Tung Peng +6
Deep neural networks (DNN) consist of layers of neurons interconnected by synaptic weights. A high bit-precision in weights is generally required to guarantee high accuracy in many…
A Laser Spiking Neuron in a Photonic Integrated Circuit
Mitchell A. Nahmias, Hsuan-Tung Peng, Thomas Ferreira de Lima +4
There has been a recent surge of interest in the implementation of linear operations such as matrix multipications using photonic integrated circuit technology. However, these appr…
Programmable Silicon Photonic Optical Thresholder
Chaoran Huang, Thomas Ferreira de Lima, Aashu Jha +4
We experimentally demonstrate an all-optical programmable thresholder on a silicon photonic circuit. By exploiting the nonlinearities in a resonator-enhanced Mach-Zehnder interfero…
Noise Analysis of Photonic Modulator Neurons
Thomas Ferreira de Lima, Alexander N. Tait, Hooman Saeidi +5
Neuromorphic photonics relies on efficiently emulating analog neural networks at high speeds. Prior work showed that transducing signals from the optical to the electrical domain a…
ITO-based Electro-absorption Modulator for Photonic Neural Activation Function
Rubab Amin, Jonathan George, Shuai Sun +8
Recently integrated optics has become an intriguing platform for implementing machine learning algorithms and inparticular neural networks. Integrated photonic circuits can straigh…
Demonstration of multivariate photonics: blind dimensionality reduction with analog integrated photonics
Alexander N. Tait, Philip Y. Ma, Thomas Ferreira de Lima +5
Multi-antenna radio front-ends generate a multi-dimensional flood of information, most of which is partially redundant. Redundancy is eliminated by dimensionality reduction, but co…
A silicon photonic modulator neuron
Alexander N. Tait, Thomas Ferreira de Lima, Mitchell A. Nahmias +4
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…
Neuromorphic photonics with electro-absorption modulators
Jonathan George, Armin Mehrabian, Rubab Amin +7
Photonic neural networks benefit from both the high channel capacity- and the wave nature of light acting as an effective weighting mechanism through linear optics. The neuron's ac…