Tera-OP/s Neuromorphic Processing with Kerr Microcombs
Mengxi Tan, Xingyuan Xu, Jiayang Wu, Andreas Boes, Bill Corcoran, Thach Giang Nguyen, S. T. Chu, Brent E. Little, Roberto Morandotti, Damien G. Hicks, M.A. Mitchell, David Moss · 2021
We report optical neuromorphic processors based on Kerr micro-combs that are programmable, scalable and ultra-high speed. We demonstrate a perceptron at 11.9Giga-OPS at 8 bits, or 95.2 Gbps, and a convolutional accelerator at 11TeraOPs/s.