Neuromorphic photonic integrated circuits

HT Peng, MA Nahmias, TF De Lima… - IEEE Journal of …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper reviews some recent progress in the field of neuromorphic photonics, with a
particular focus on scalability. We provide a framework for understanding the underlying …

Recent progress in semiconductor excitable lasers for photonic spike processing

PR Prucnal, BJ Shastri, T Ferreira de Lima… - Advances in Optics …, 2016 - opg.optica.org
Recently, there has been tremendous interest in excitable optoelectronic devices and in
particular excitable semiconductor lasers that could potentially enable unconventional …

[BOOK][B] Neuromorphic photonics

PR Prucnal, BJ Shastri - 2017 - taylorfrancis.com
This book sets out to build bridges between the domains of photonic device physics and
neural networks, providing a comprehensive overview of the emerging field of" …

The dynamical complexity of optically injected semiconductor lasers

S Wieczorek, B Krauskopf, TB Simpson, D Lenstra - Physics Reports, 2005 - Elsevier
This report presents a modern approach to the theoretical and experimental study of
complex nonlinear behavior of a semiconductor laser with optical injection—an example of a …

Progress in neuromorphic photonics

T Ferreira De Lima, BJ Shastri, AN Tait… - …, 2017 - degruyter.com
As society's appetite for information continues to grow, so does our need to process this
information with increasing speed and versatility. Many believe that the one-size-fits-all …

Excitability in ramped systems: the compost-bomb instability

S Wieczorek, P Ashwin… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The paper studies a novel excitability type where a large excitable response appears when
a system's parameter is varied gradually, or ramped, above some critical rate. This occurs …

Excitability in a semiconductor laser with saturable absorber

S Barbay, R Kuszelewicz, AM Yacomotti - Optics letters, 2011 - opg.optica.org
We show that a monolithic and compact vertical cavity laser with intracavity saturable
absorber can emit short excitable pulses. These calibrated optical pulses can be excited as …

Solitary and coupled semiconductor ring lasers as optical spiking neurons

W Coomans, L Gelens, S Beri, J Danckaert… - Physical Review E …, 2011 - APS
We theoretically investigate the possibility of generating pulses in an excitable (asymmetric)
semiconductor ring laser (SRL) using optical trigger pulses. We show that the phase …

Principles of neuromorphic photonics

BJ Shastri, AN Tait, TF de Lima, MA Nahmias… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2017 - arxiv.org
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 …

Multipulse excitability in a semiconductor laser with optical injection

S Wieczorek, B Krauskopf, D Lenstra - Physical review letters, 2002 - APS
An optically injected semiconductor laser can produce excitable multipulses. Homoclinic
bifurcation curves confine experimentally accessible regions in parameter space where the …