activity
20202026
most citedRoadmap on Neuromorphic Photonics

18 citations · 31 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators

13 papers

physics.optics2026

Neuromorphic Infrared Fibre-Optic Event-Based Sensing with Fast and Efficient Photonic-Electronic Spiking Neurons

Dylan Black, Giovanni Donati, Joshua Robertson +5

Current photonic technologies for remote sensing require the capture of large amounts of data, suffering as a result from high energy consumption, excessive data redundancy and sto…

physics.optics2026

Parallel Spatial Photonic Programming of Optoelectronic IGZO RRAM with a compact LED Array

Andrew Adair, Joshua Robertson, Andreas Tsiamis +6

Optoelectronic resistive random-access memory elements (ORRAM) are critical emerging devices that leverage photonic technologies to bring the advantages of optical programming to t…

physics.optics2026

Combined spatially and temporally multiplexed photonic reservoir computer with a diffractively coupled VCSEL-array

Joshua Robertson, Moritz Pfluger, Ingo Fischer +2

We report and analyse the classification performance of an experimental hybrid spatio-temporal photonic reservoir computer based upon a free-space VCSEL array. We demonstrate exper…

physics.optics2026

Neuron Surface Emitting Laser (NeuronSEL): Spiking Regimes and Negative Differential Resistance in Solitary Multi-junction VCSELs

Maria Duque-Gijon, Joshua Robertson, Dafydd Owen-Newns +6

Neuromorphic photonics is emerging as a powerful platform for fast and efficient optical information processing and sensing. However, future brain-inspired photonic systems require…

cs.ET2025★ 18 cited

Roadmap on Neuromorphic Photonics

Daniel Brunner, Bhavin J. Shastri, Mohammed A. Al Qadasi +147

This roadmap consolidates recent advances while exploring emerging applications, reflecting the remarkable diversity of hardware platforms, neuromorphic concepts, and implementatio…

physics.optics2024

Photonic-electronic spiking neuron with multi-modal and multi-wavelength excitatory and inhibitory operation for high-speed neuromorphic sensing and computing

Weikang Zhang, Matěj Hejda, Qusay Raghib Ali Al-Taai +6

We report a multi-modal spiking neuron that allows optical and electronic input and control, and wavelength-multiplexing operation, for use in novel high-speed neuromorphic sensing…

physics.optics2023★ 7 cited

Interfacing spiking VCSEL-neurons with silicon photonics weight banks towards integrated neuromorphic photonic systems

Matěj Hejda, Eli A. Doris, Simon Bilodeau +5

Spiking neurons and neural networks constitute a fundamental building block for brain-inspired computing, which is posed to benefit significantly from photonic hardware implementat…

cs.ET2022

Photonic Spiking Neural Networks with Highly Efficient Training Protocols for Ultrafast Neuromorphic Computing Systems

Dafydd Owen-Newns, Joshua Robertson, Matej Hejda +1

Photonic technologies offer great prospects for novel ultrafast, energy-efficient and hardware-friendly neuromorphic (brain-like) computing platforms. Moreover, neuromorphic photon…

cs.ET2022

GHz Rate Neuromorphic Photonic Spiking Neural Network with a Single Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser (VCSEL)

Dafydd Owen-Newns, Joshua Robertson, Matej Hejda +1

Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers (VCSELs) are highly promising devices for the construction of neuromorphic photonic information processing systems, due to their numerous de…

cs.ET2021

Photonic neuromorphic computing using vertical cavity semiconductor lasers

Anas Skalli, Joshua Robertson, Dafydd Owen-Newns +5

Photonic realizations of neural network computing hardware are a promising approach to enable future scalability of neuromorphic computing. In this review we provide an overview on…

cs.ET2021

Ultrafast Neuromorphic Photonic Image Processing with a VCSEL Neuron

Joshua Robertson, Paul Kirkland, Juan Arturo Alanis +4

The ever-increasing demand for Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems is underlining a significant requirement for new, AI-optimised hardware. Neuromorphic (brain-like) processors ar…

physics.optics2020★ 5 cited

All-optical neuromorphic binary convolution with a spiking VCSEL neuron for image gradient magnitudes

Yahui Zhang, Joshua Robertson, Shuiying Xiang +3

All-optical binary convolution with a photonic spiking vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) neuron is proposed and demonstrated experimentally for the first time. Optical…

eess.IV2020★ 1 cited

Convolutional Image Edge Detection Using Ultrafast Photonic Spiking VCSEL Neurons

Joshua Robertson, Yahui Zhang, Matej Hejda +4

We report experimentally and in theory on the detection of edge information in digital images using ultrafast spiking optical artificial neurons towards convolutional neural networ…