• DocumentCode
    2099258
  • Title

    Self-pulsation and excitability mechanism in silicon-on-insulator microrings

  • Author

    Van Vaerenbergh, Thomas ; Fiers, Martin ; Mechet, Pauline ; Spuesens, Thijs ; Kumar, Ravindra ; Morthier, Geert ; Vandoorne, K. ; Schneider, B. ; Schrauwen, Benjamin ; Dambre, Joni ; Bienstman, Peter

  • Author_Institution
    INTEC, Photonics Res. Group, Ghent Univ. - imec, Ghent, Belgium
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    7-10 Nov. 2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    In this paper, we demonstrate excitability in a silicon-on-insulator microring. Neglecting the fast light dynamics simplifies the calculation of the excitability onset. Excitable microrings will be useful as a basic building block in all-optical neural networks.
  • Keywords
    integrated optics; micro-optics; neural nets; silicon-on-insulator; all-optical neural networks; excitability mechanism; fast light dynamics; self-pulsation; silicon-on-insulator microrings;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP), 2012 Asia
  • Conference_Location
    Guangzhou
  • ISSN
    2162-108X
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-6274-0
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6511017
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=2099258