A Photonic Accelerator for Feature Map Generation in Convolutional Neural Networks
Lorenzo De Marinis, Federico Nesti, Marco Cococcioni, Nicola Andriolli · OSA Advanced Photonics Congress (AP) 2020 (IPR, NP, NOMA, Networks, PVLED, PSC, SPPCom, SOF) · 2020
We propose a photonic accelerator for convolutional neural networks carrying out linear, nonlinear, and pooling operations. It achieves an excellent accuracy in TensorFlow simulations and is more energy efficient than state-of-the-art electronics.