Summary
the 2014 International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications
2014
Session Number:C2L-B
Session:
Number:C2L-B3
Recent Progress Towards a Fully-Integrated Hybrid Silicon Laser Neuron Platform
Mitchell A. Nahmias, Alex N. Tait, Bhavin Shastri, Paul R. Prucnal,
pp.503-506
Publication Date:2014/9/14
Online ISSN:2188-5079
Summary:
We combine advances in photonic integrated circuits (PICs) with principles from neuromorphic engineering to create a scalable, robust, and extremely high bandwidth bio-inspired computational system. We describe such a system in a wafer-bonded III-V/silicon platform, integrating the network (through passive siliconon-insulator technology) and the computational elements (through active III-V laser devices) in a single substrate, and corroborate its underlying principles through preliminary bench-top demonstrations.