In photonic neural network a key building block is the perceptron. Here, we describe and demonstrate a complex-valued photonic perceptron that combines time and space multiplexing in a fully passive silicon photonics integrated circuit to process data in the optical domain. A time dependent input bit sequence is broadcasted into a few delay lines and detected by a photodiode. After detection, the phases are trained by a particle swarm algorithm to solve the given task. Since only the phases of the propagating optical modes are trained, signal attenuation in the perceptron due to amplitude modulation is avoided. The perceptron performs binary pattern recognition and few bit delayed XOR operations up to 16 Gbps (limited by the used electronics) with Bit Error Rates as low as 10 - 6.

A photonic complex perceptron for ultrafast data processing / Mancinelli, M.; Bazzanella, D.; Bettotti, P.; Pavesi, L.. - In: SCIENTIFIC REPORTS. - ISSN 2045-2322. - 12:1(2022), p. 4216. [10.1038/s41598-022-08087-2]

A photonic complex perceptron for ultrafast data processing

Mancinelli M.;Bazzanella D.;Bettotti P.;Pavesi L.
2022-01-01

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In photonic neural network a key building block is the perceptron. Here, we describe and demonstrate a complex-valued photonic perceptron that combines time and space multiplexing in a fully passive silicon photonics integrated circuit to process data in the optical domain. A time dependent input bit sequence is broadcasted into a few delay lines and detected by a photodiode. After detection, the phases are trained by a particle swarm algorithm to solve the given task. Since only the phases of the propagating optical modes are trained, signal attenuation in the perceptron due to amplitude modulation is avoided. The perceptron performs binary pattern recognition and few bit delayed XOR operations up to 16 Gbps (limited by the used electronics) with Bit Error Rates as low as 10 - 6.
2022
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Mancinelli, M.; Bazzanella, D.; Bettotti, P.; Pavesi, L.
A photonic complex perceptron for ultrafast data processing / Mancinelli, M.; Bazzanella, D.; Bettotti, P.; Pavesi, L.. - In: SCIENTIFIC REPORTS. - ISSN 2045-2322. - 12:1(2022), p. 4216. [10.1038/s41598-022-08087-2]
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