@inproceedings{cd9881a460fe431eb354040aa013dcf1,
title = "Photonic neural network nonlinear activation functions by electrooptic absorption modulators",
abstract = "We report on using the transfer function of electrooptic absorption modulators as nonlinear activation functions of photonic neurons and show 95% accuracy of MNIST classification inference on an AlexNet in optical artificial neural networks.",
author = "Jonathan George and Amin Mehrabian and Rubab Amin and Tarek El-Ghazawi and Prucnal, {Paul K.} and Sorger, {Volker J.}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018 The Author(s).; Frontiers in Optics, FIO 2018 ; Conference date: 16-09-2018 Through 20-09-2018",
year = "2018",
doi = "10.1364/FIO.2018.JW3A.123",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9781943580460",
series = "Optics InfoBase Conference Papers",
publisher = "Optica Publishing Group (formerly OSA)",
booktitle = "Frontiers in Optics, FIO 2018",
}