Ultrafast emulation of retinal neuronal circuits with artificial VCSEL optical neurons

Robertson, Joshua and Wade, Ewan and Hurtado, Antonio; (2019) Ultrafast emulation of retinal neuronal circuits with artificial VCSEL optical neurons. In: 2019 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC). IEEE, USA. ISBN 978-1-7281-0615-1 (https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCon.2019.8908359)

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Abstract

Biological retinal neuronal circuits are emulated using a system of connected 1550 nm Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser (VCSEL)-neurons. Spiking and non-spiking neuronal responses are reproduced at ultrafast speed (>7 orders of magnitude faster than neurons) with prospects for novel brain-inspired computing platforms and Artificial Intelligence.

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