SOA-based all-optical neuron with reconfigurable nonlinear activation functions
Qiang Li, Ye Tian, Shengping Liu, Yang Zhao, Wei Wang, Zhi Wang, Junbo Feng, Jin Guo · Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics · 2022
We propose an all-optical neuron based on the self-induced polarization rotation in a semiconductor optical amplifier, which achieves reconfigurable nonlinear activation functions by tuning the initial state of polarization of input signal.