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: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4448-9034 and Wade, Ewan;-
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Item type: Article ID code: 66900 Dates: DateEvent27 February 2019Published27 February 2019Published Online30 January 2019AcceptedNotes: © 2019 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works. Subjects: Science > Physics > Optics. Light Department: Faculty of Science > Physics
Faculty of Science > Physics > Institute of PhotonicsDepositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 12 Feb 2019 11:37 Last modified: 26 Oct 2024 16:51 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/66900