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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP), 2012 Asia
Conference_Location :
Guangzhou
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-6274-0
