Jinlong Xiang, Yaotian Zhao, An He, Jie Xiao, Yikai Su, Xuhan Guo
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Abstract
Guided by brain-like temporal processing and event-driven manner, neuromorphic computing has emerged as a competitive paradigm to realize artificial intelligence with high energy efficiency. Silicon photonics offers an ideal hardware platform with mutual foundry fabrication process and well-developed device libraries, however, its huge potential to build integrated neuromorphic systems is significantly hindered due to the lack of scalable on-chip photonic spiking neurons. Here, the first integrated electrically-driven spiking neuron based on a silicon microring under the carrier injection working mode is reported, which is capable of emulating fundamental neural dynamics including excitability threshold, temporal integration, refractory period, controllable spike inhibition, and precise time encoding at a speed of 250 MHz. By programming time-multiplexed spike representations, photonic spiking convolution is experimentally realized for image edge feature detection. Besides, a spiking convolutional neural network is constructed by combining photonic convolutional layers with a software-implemented fully-connected layer, which yields a classification accuracy of 94.1% on the benchmark Modified National Institute of Standards and Technology database. Moreover, it is theoretically verified that it's promising to further improve the operation speed to a gigahertz level by developing an electro-optical co-simulation model. The proposed microring neuron constitutes the final building block of scalable spike activation, thus representing a great breakthrough to boost the development of on-chip neuromorphic information processing.
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Laser & Photonics Reviews is a reputable journal that publishes high-quality Reviews, original Research Articles, and Perspectives in the field of photonics and optics. It covers both theoretical and experimental aspects, including recent groundbreaking research, specific advancements, and innovative applications.
As evidence of its impact and recognition, Laser & Photonics Reviews boasts a remarkable 2022 Impact Factor of 11.0, according to the Journal Citation Reports from Clarivate Analytics (2023). Moreover, it holds impressive rankings in the InCites Journal Citation Reports: in 2021, it was ranked 6th out of 101 in the field of Optics, 15th out of 161 in Applied Physics, and 12th out of 69 in Condensed Matter Physics.
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