Artificial optoelectronic spiking neuron based on a resonant tunnelling diode coupled to a vertical cavity surface emitting laser
Hejda, Matěj and Malysheva, Ekaterina and Owen-Newns, Dafydd and Ali Al-Taai, Qusay Raghib and Zhang, Weikang and Ortega-Piwonka, Ignacio and Javaloyes, Julien and Wasige, Edward and Dolores-Calzadilla, Victor and Figueiredo, José M. L. and Romeira, Bruno and Hurtado, Antonio (2023) Artificial optoelectronic spiking neuron based on a resonant tunnelling diode coupled to a vertical cavity surface emitting laser. Nanophotonics, 12 (5). pp. 857-867. ISSN 2192-8614 (https://doi.org/10.1515/nanoph-2022-0362)
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Abstract
Excitable optoelectronic devices represent one of the key building blocks for implementation of artificial spiking neurons in neuromorphic (brain-inspired) photonic systems. This work introduces and experimentally investigates an opto-electro-optical (O/E/O) artificial neuron built with a resonant tunnelling diode (RTD) coupled to a photodetector as a receiver and a vertical cavity surface emitting laser as a transmitter. We demonstrate a well-defined excitability threshold, above which the neuron produces optical spiking responses with characteristic neural-like refractory period. We utilise its fan-in capability to perform in-device coincidence detection (logical AND) and exclusive logical OR (XOR) tasks. These results provide first experimental validation of deterministic triggering and tasks in an RTD-based spiking optoelectronic neuron with both input and output optical (I/O) terminals. Furthermore, we also investigate in simulation the prospects of the proposed system for nanophotonic implementation in a monolithic design combining a nanoscale RTD element and a nanolaser; therefore demonstrating the potential of integrated RTD-based excitable nodes for low footprint, high-speed optoelectronic spiking neurons in future neuromorphic photonic hardware.
ORCID iDs
Hejda, Matěj ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4493-9426, Malysheva, Ekaterina, Owen-Newns, Dafydd, Ali Al-Taai, Qusay Raghib, Zhang, Weikang, Ortega-Piwonka, Ignacio, Javaloyes, Julien, Wasige, Edward, Dolores-Calzadilla, Victor, Figueiredo, José M. L., Romeira, Bruno and Hurtado, Antonio ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4448-9034;-
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Item type: Article ID code: 83366 Dates: DateEvent1 March 2023Published15 November 2022Published Online26 October 2022AcceptedSubjects: Science > Physics Department: Faculty of Science > Physics
Faculty of Science > Physics > Institute of PhotonicsDepositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 29 Nov 2022 16:57 Last modified: 11 Nov 2024 13:42 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/83366