Characterization of cascadable excitability in a silicon-on-insulator microring
Thomas Van Vaerenbergh, Martin Fiers, Pauline Mechet, Thijs Spuesens, Rajesh Kumar, Geert Morthier, Kristof Vandoorne, Bendix Schneider, Benjamin Schrauwen, Joni Dambre, Peter Bienstman · Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University) · 2012
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.