Hurtado, A and Schires, K and Henning, ID and Adams, MJ (2012) 'Investigation of vertical cavity surface emitting laser dynamics for neuromorphic photonic systems.' Applied Physics Letters, 100 (10). ISSN 0003-6951

Preview

Text ApplPhysLett_100_103703.pdf Download (1MB) | Preview

Abstract

We report an approach based upon vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs) to reproduce optically different behaviors exhibited by biological neurons but on a much faster timescale. The technique proposed is based on the polarization switching and nonlinear dynamics induced in a single VCSEL under polarized optical injection. The particular attributes of VCSELs and the simple experimental configuration used in this work offer prospects of fast, reconfigurable processing elements with excellent fan-out and scaling potentials for use in future computational paradigms and artificial neural networks. © 2012 American Institute of Physics.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	Q Science > QC Physics
Divisions:	Faculty of Science and Health > Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, School of
Depositing User:	Jim Jamieson
Date Deposited:	06 Mar 2013 11:24
Last Modified:	17 Aug 2017 18:02
URI:	http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/5522

Actions (login required)

View Item