Heterogeneously Integrated III/V-on-Si Injection Seeding Laser Neuron
Bassem M. Tossoun, Di Liang, Raymond G. Beausoleil · 2022 28th International Semiconductor Laser Conference (ISLC) · 2022
We implement the first on-chip all-optical neuron on silicon by injection seeding a III/V-on-Si microring laser. The output of the laser at a selected wavelength resembles a sigmoid function and can be integrated as the non-linear activation function within a silicon photonic neural network.