• DocumentCode
    2111448
  • Title

    An evanescent hybrid silicon laser neuron

  • Author

    Nahmias, Mitchell A. ; Tait, Alexander N. ; Shastri, Bhavin J. ; Prucnal, Paul R.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ, USA
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    8-12 Sept. 2013
  • Firstpage
    93
  • Lastpage
    94
  • Abstract
    We propose a hybrid silicon laser and photodetector system that can emulate the electro-physiological behavior of a real neuron at ultrafast time-scales. Networks of lasers would scale up easily using a silicon III-V wafer-bonding platform.
  • Keywords
    elemental semiconductors; photodetectors; semiconductor lasers; silicon; wafer bonding; Si; electro-physiological behavior; evanescent hybrid silicon laser neuron; lasers networks; photodetector system; real neuron; ultrafast time-scales; wafer-bonding platform; Laser excitation; Laser modes; Neurons; Photodetectors; Semiconductor lasers; Silicon; Wires;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Photonics Conference (IPC), 2013 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Bellevue, WA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1506-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IPCon.2013.6656385
  • Filename
    6656385
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=2111448