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

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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…

physics.optics2025

Resonate-and-Fire Photonic-Electronic Spiking Neurons for Fast and Efficient Light-Enabled Neuromorphic Processing Systems

Andrew Adair, Dafydd Owen-Newns, Giovanni Donati +7

Neuromorphic computing seeks to replicate the spiking dynamics of biological neurons for brain-inspired computation. While electronic implementations of artificial spiking neurons…

physics.comp-ph2025

Neuromorphic Photonic Processing and Memory with Spiking Resonant Tunnelling Diode Neurons and Neural Networks

Dafydd Owen-Newns, Joshua Robertson, Giovanni Donati +5

Neuromorphic computing-modelled after the functionality and efficiency of biological neural systems-offers promising new directions for advancing artificial intelligence and comput…

physics.app-ph2025

Spiking Rate and Latency Encoding with Resonant Tunnelling Diode Neuron Circuits and Design Influences

Giovanni Donati, Dafydd Owen-Newns, Joshua Robertson +6

Neuromorphic computing, inspired by the functionality and efficiency of biological neural systems, holds promise for advancing artificial intelligence and computational paradigms.…

physics.comp-ph2024

High-Speed Time Series Prediction with a GHz-rate Photonic Spiking Neural Network built with a single VCSEL

Dafydd Owen-Newns, Lina Jaurigue, Josh Robertson +4

Photonic technologies hold significant potential for creating innovative, high-speed, efficient and hardware-friendly neuromorphic computing platforms. Neuromorphic photonic method…

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.ET2022★ 2 cited

Artificial optoelectronic spiking neuron based on a resonant tunnelling diode coupled to a vertical cavity surface emitting laser

Matěj Hejda, Ekaterina Malysheva, Dafydd Owen-Newns +9

Excitable optoelectronic devices represent one of the key building blocks for implementation of artificial spiking neurons in neuromorphic (brain-inspired) photonic systems. This w…

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…