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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…
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…
Digital Electronics and Analog Photonics for Convolutional Neural Networks (DEAP-CNNs)
Viraj Bangari, Bicky A. Marquez, Heidi B. Miller +6
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are powerful and highly ubiquitous tools for extracting features from large datasets for applications such as computer vision and natural langu…
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…
Principles of Neuromorphic Photonics
Bhavin J. Shastri, Alexander N. Tait, Thomas Ferreira de Lima +3
In an age overrun with information, the ability to process reams of data has become crucial. The demand for data will continue to grow as smart gadgets multiply and become increasi…
Neuromorphic Silicon Photonic Networks
Alexander N. Tait, Thomas Ferreira de Lima, Ellen Zhou +4
Photonic systems for high-performance information processing have attracted renewed interest. Neuromorphic silicon photonics has the potential to integrate processing functions tha…
Dynamical laser spike processing
Bhavin J. Shastri, Mitchell A. Nahmias, Alexander N. Tait +3
Novel materials and devices in photonics have the potential to revolutionize optical information processing, beyond conventional binary-logic approaches. Laser systems offer a rich…
SIMPEL: Circuit model for photonic spike processing laser neurons
Bhavin J. Shastri, Mitchell A. Nahmias, Alexander N. Tait +2
We propose an equivalent circuit model for photonic spike processing laser neurons with an embedded saturable absorber---a simulation model for photonic excitable lasers (SIMPEL).…
Photonic spike processing: ultrafast laser neurons and an integrated photonic network
Bhavin J. Shastri, Alexander N. Tait, Mitchell A. Nahmias +1
The marriage of two vibrant fields---photonics and neuromorphic processing---is fundamentally enabled by the strong analogies within the underlying physics between the dynamics of…