Electrically-controlled spiking regimes in vertical-cavity surface emitting lasers

Robertson, Joshua and Wade, Ewan and Hurtado, Antonio; (2018) Electrically-controlled spiking regimes in vertical-cavity surface emitting lasers. In: 31st Annual Conference of the IEEE Photonics Society. IEEE, USA. ISBN 9781538653586 (https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCon.2018.8527111)

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Abstract

Electrically-controlled, tuneable and repeatable neuron-like spiking regimes are generated in an optically-injected 1300 nm Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser at sub-nanosecond speeds (>7 orders of magnitude faster than neurons). These results offer great prospects for compact and ultrafast photonic neuronal models for future neuromorphic computing platforms.

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Robertson, Joshua, Wade, Ewan and Hurtado, Antonio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4448-9034;