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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Conference (IPC), 2013 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Bellevue, WA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1506-8
DOI :
10.1109/IPCon.2013.6656385
