TY - GEN
T1 - A photonic neuromorphic computational primitive for complex high bandwidth signal processing
AU - Rosenbluth, David
AU - Olivieri, Marc
AU - Kravtsov, Konstantin
AU - Fok, Mable P.
AU - Prucnal, Paul Richard
PY - 2010/12/27
Y1 - 2010/12/27
N2 - The photonic computational primitive presented in this paper is the first all optical implementation of a spiking leaky integrate and fire (LIF) neuron. Due to its hybrid analog/digital nature it is capable of overcoming both the noise problems of purely analog optical devices and the limited computational capabilities of individual digital optical devices. It is possible to chain together large numbers of these devices, each individually capable of significant computation, to implement far more complex computations on high bandwidth signals than is currently possible. This device represents both a technology capable of scaling the complexity of computations that can be performed on high-bandwidth signals, and a contribution to the nacent field of photonic neuromorphic engineering. This technology applies to a wide range of avionics applications in which data bandwidth is too high or the response delay too short for electronic processing.
AB - The photonic computational primitive presented in this paper is the first all optical implementation of a spiking leaky integrate and fire (LIF) neuron. Due to its hybrid analog/digital nature it is capable of overcoming both the noise problems of purely analog optical devices and the limited computational capabilities of individual digital optical devices. It is possible to chain together large numbers of these devices, each individually capable of significant computation, to implement far more complex computations on high bandwidth signals than is currently possible. This device represents both a technology capable of scaling the complexity of computations that can be performed on high-bandwidth signals, and a contribution to the nacent field of photonic neuromorphic engineering. This technology applies to a wide range of avionics applications in which data bandwidth is too high or the response delay too short for electronic processing.
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U2 - 10.1109/AVFOP.2010.5637456
DO - 10.1109/AVFOP.2010.5637456
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:78650333647
SN - 9781424453122
T3 - 2010 IEEE Avionics, Fiber-Optics and Photonics Technology Conference, AVFOP 2010
SP - 49
EP - 50
BT - 2010 IEEE Avionics, Fiber-Optics and Photonics Technology Conference, AVFOP 2010
T2 - 2010 IEEE Avionics, Fiber-Optics and Photonics Technology Conference, AVFOP 2010
Y2 - 21 September 2010 through 23 September 2010
ER -