Attojoule Modulators for Photonic Neuromorphic Computing
Rubab Amin, Jonathan George, Jacob B. Khurgin, Tarek El‐Ghazawi, Paul R. Prucnal, Volker J. Sorger · Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics · 2018
We show how the nonlinear transfer function of electrooptic modulators enables vector matrix multiplications of photonic neural networks. Here the modulators energy-per-bit function and signal-to-noise ratio are critical factors impacting system performance.