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

no code implementations • 1 May 2023 • MatĚJ Hejda, Eli A. Doris, Simon Bilodeau, Joshua Robertson, Dafydd Owen-Newns, Bhavin J. Shastri, Paul R. Prucnal, Antonio Hurtado

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

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

no code implementations • 9 Nov 2020 • YaHui Zhang, Joshua Robertson, Shuiying Xiang, MatĚJ Hejda, JuliÁn Bueno, Antonio Hurtado

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