Electrically-controlled neuron-like spiking regimes in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers at ultrafast rates

Robertson, Joshua and Hurtado, Antonio and Wade, Ewan (2019) Electrically-controlled neuron-like spiking regimes in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers at ultrafast rates. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics. ISSN 1077-260X (https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTQE.2019.2899040)

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Abstract

We report experimentally on the electrically-controlled, tunable and repeatable neuron-like spiking regimes generated in an optically-injected vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) operating at the telecom wavelength of 1300 nm. These fast spiking dynamics (obtained at sub-nanosecond speed rates) demonstrate different behaviours observed in biological neurons such as thresholding, phasic and tonic spiking and spike rate and spike latency coding. The spiking regimes are activated in response to external stimuli (with controlled strengths and temporal duration) encoded in the bias current applied to a VCSEL subject to continuous wave (CW) optical injection (OI). These results reveal the prospect for fast (>7 orders of magnitude faster than neurons), novel, electrically-controlled spiking photonic modules for future neuromorphic computing platforms.

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Robertson, Joshua, Hurtado, Antonio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4448-9034 and Wade, Ewan;
  • Item type:Article
    ID code:66900
    Dates:
    Date
    Event
    27 February 2019
    Published
    27 February 2019
    Published Online
    30 January 2019
    Accepted
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    Subjects:Science > Physics > Optics. Light
    Department:Faculty of Science > Physics
    Faculty of Science > Physics > Institute of Photonics
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:12 Feb 2019 11:37
    Last modified:11 Nov 2024 12:13
    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/66900
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