A Silicon Photonic Coherent Neuron with 10GMAC/sec processing line-rate
George Mourgias-Alexandris, Miltiadis Moralis‐Pegios, Stelios Simos, George Dabos, Nikos Passalis, Manos Kirtas, Teerapat Rutirawut, Frédéric Y. Gardes, Anastasios Tefas, Nikos Pleros · 2021
We demonstrate a novel coherent Si-Pho neuron with 10Gbaud on-chip input-data vector generation capabilities. Its performance as a hidden layer within a neural network has been experimentally validated for the MNIST data-set, yielding 96.19% accuracy.