Photonics for artificial intelligence and neuromorphic computing

BJ Shastri, AN Tait, T Ferreira de Lima, WHP Pernice… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Research in photonic computing has flourished due to the proliferation of optoelectronic
components on photonic integration platforms. Photonic integrated circuits have enabled …

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 …

Neuromorphic computing based on wavelength-division multiplexing

X Xu, W Han, M Tan, Y Sun, Y Li, J Wu… - IEEE Journal of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optical neural networks (ONNs), or optical neuromorphic hardware accelerators, have the
potential to dramatically enhance the computing power and energy efficiency of mainstream …

A survey of neuromorphic computing and neural networks in hardware

CD Schuman, TE Potok, RM Patton, JD Birdwell… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2017 - arxiv.org
Neuromorphic computing has come to refer to a variety of brain-inspired computers, devices,
and models that contrast the pervasive von Neumann computer architecture. This …

An all-optical neuron with sigmoid activation function

G Mourgias-Alexandris, A Tsakyridis, N Passalis… - Optics express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
We present an all-optical neuron that utilizes a logistic sigmoid activation function, using a
Wavelength-Division Multiplexing (WDM) input & weighting scheme. The activation function …

[KNJIGA][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" …

Deep neural network through an InP SOA-based photonic integrated cross-connect

B Shi, N Calabretta, R Stabile - IEEE Journal of Selected Topics …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Photonic neuromorphic computing is raising a growing interest as it promises to provide
massive parallelism and low power consumption. In this paper, we demonstrate for the first …

A leaky integrate-and-fire laser neuron for ultrafast cognitive computing

MA Nahmias, BJ Shastri, AN Tait… - IEEE journal of selected …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose an original design for a neuron-inspired photonic computational primitive for a
large-scale, ultrafast cognitive computing platform. The laser exhibits excitability and …

Recent progress in analog memory-based accelerators for deep learning

H Tsai, S Ambrogio, P Narayanan… - Journal of Physics D …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We survey recent progress in the use of analog memory devices to build neuromorphic
hardware accelerators for deep learning applications. After an overview of deep learning …

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 …