Photonic Neural Network Nonlinear Activation Functions by Electrooptic Absorption Modulators
Jonathan George, Amin Mehrabian, Rubab Amin, Tarek El‐Ghazawi, Paul K. Prucnal, Volker J. Sorger · Frontiers in Optics / Laser Science · 2018
We report on using the transfer function of electrooptic absorption modulators as nonlinear activation functions of photonic neurons and show 95% accuracy of MNIST classification inference on an AlexNet in optical artificial neural networks.