An evanescent hybrid silicon laser neuron
Mitchell A. Nahmias, Alexander N. Tait, Bhavin J. Shastri, Paul R. Prucnal · 2013
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.