Energy-efficient and high-bandwidth neuromorphic nanophotonic Chips for Artificial Intelligence systems

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Neuromorphic system simulator free-software on-line

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Final Dissemination Report

Report on energy-efficient optical synaptic interconnects design technology with low losses and on-chip amplification

Report on energyefficient optical synaptic interconnects design technology with low losses and onchip amplification

Kick-Off Meeting Report

This will collect the outcome of the kick-off meeting.

Report on the Dissemination Industrial Workshop

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (24)

An Integrated Photorefractive Analog Matrix-Vector Multiplier for Machine Learning

Author(s): Vlieg, Elger A.; Talandier, Lucas; Dangel, Roger; Horst, Folkert; Offrein, Bert J.
Published in: Applied Sciences, 23, 2022, ISSN 2076-3417
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/app12094226

Resonant Tunneling Diode Nano-Optoelectronic Excitable Nodes for Neuromorphic Spike-Based Information Processing

Author(s): Matěj Hejda; Juan Arturo Alanis; Ignacio Ortega-Piwonka; João Lourenço; José Figueiredo; Julien Javaloyes; Bruno Romeira; Antonio Hurtado
Published in: Physical Review Applied, 1, 2022, ISSN 2331-7019
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevapplied.17.024072

Deterministic integration of single nanowire devices with on-chip photonics and electronics

Author(s): D. Jevtics; B. Guilhabert; A. Hurtado; M.D. Dawson; M.J. Strain
Published in: Progress in Qunatum Electronics, 4, 2022, ISSN 0079-6727
Publisher: Pergamon Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.pquantelec.2022.100394

Photonic synaptic system for MAC operations by interconnected vertical cavity surface emitting lasers

Author(s): Joshua Robertson; Juan Arturo Alanis; Matěj Hejda; Antonio Hurtado
Published in: Optical Materials Express, 7, 2022, ISSN 2159-3930
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/ome.450923

Spatially dense integration of micron-scale devices from multiple materials on a single chip via transfer-printing

Author(s): Dimitars Jevtics; Jack A. Smith; John McPhillimy; Benoit Guilhabert; Paul Hill; Charalambos Klitis; Antonio Hurtado; Marc Sorel; Hark Hoe Tan; Chennupati Jagadish; Martin D. Dawson; Michael J. Strain
Published in: Optical Materials Express, 18, 2021, ISSN 2159-3930
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/ome.432751

Efficient light extraction in subwavelength GaAs/AlGaAs nanopillars for nanoscale light-emitting devices.

Author(s): Bruno Romeira; Jérôme Borme; Helder Fonseca; Joao Gaspar; Jana B. Nieder
Published in: Optics Express, 17, 2020, ISSN 1094-4087
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/oe.402887

Weight adjustable photonic synapse by non-linear gain in a vertical cavity semiconductor optical amplifier

Author(s): Juan Arturo Alanis; Joshua Robertson; Matěj Hejda; Antonio Hurtado
Published in: Applied Physics Letters, 1, 2021, ISSN 0003-6951
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/5.0064374

Comprehensive Performance Analysis of a VCSEL-Based Photonic Reservoir Computer

Author(s): Julian Bueno; Joshua Robertson; Matej Hejda; Antonio Hurtado
Published in: IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 3, 2021, ISSN 1941-0174
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/lpt.2021.3075095

Cityscape LoRa Signal Propagation Predicted and Tested Using Real-World Building-Data Based O-FDTD Simulations and Experimental Characterization.

Author(s): Ricardo M. R. Adão; Eduardo Balvís; A. V. Carpentier; Humberto Michinel; Jana B. Nieder
Published in: Sensors, 13, 2021, ISSN 1424-8220
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/s21082717

Opportunities for integrated photonic neural networks

Author(s): Pascal Stark; Folkert Horst; Roger Dangel; Jonas R. Weiss; Bert Jan Offrein
Published in: Nanophotonics, 7, 2020, ISSN 2192-8614
Publisher: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/nanoph-2020-0297

Design and manufacture of an all-polymeric integrated multimode interferometer for visible photonics

Author(s): Fernando J. Gordo; Joana Tátá; Jérôme Borme; Morten A. Geday; Manuel Caño-García; Jana B. Nieder
Published in: Optics Express, 24, 2022, ISSN 1094-4087
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/oe.469281

Ultrafast Neuromorphic Photonic Image Processing with a VCSEL Neuron

Author(s): Joshua Robertson; Paul Kirkland; Juan Arturo Alanis; Matěj Hejda; Julián Bueno; Gaetano Di Caterina; Antonio Hurtado
Published in: Scientific Reports, 5, 2022, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2110.01617

Spectral-temporal luminescence properties of Colloidal CdSe/ZnS Quantum Dots in relevant polymer matrices for integration in low turn-on voltage AC-driven LEDs

Author(s): Ricardo M. R. Adão; Tangyou Sun; Bruno Romeira; Pedro Alpuim; Jana B. Nieder
Published in: Optics Express, 13, 2022, ISSN 1094-4087
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/oe.449037

Photonic neuromorphic computing using vertical cavity semiconductor lasers

Author(s): Anas Skalli; Joshua Robertson; Dafydd Owen-Newns; Matej Hejda; Xavier Porte; Stephan Reitzenstein; Antonio Hurtado; Daniel Brunner
Published in: Optical Materials Express, 14, 2022, ISSN 2159-3930
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/ome.450926

High-throughput electrical characterization of nanomaterials from room to cryogenic temperatures

Author(s): L. W. Smith; Jack O Batey; Jack A. Alexander-Webber; Ye Fan; Yu-Chiang Hsieh; Shin-Jr Fung; Dimitars Jevtics; Joshua Robertson; Benoit Guilhabert; Michael J. Strain; Martin D. Dawson; Antonio Hurtado; J. Griffiths; Harvey E. Beere; Chennupati Jagadish; Oliver J. Burton; Stephan Hofmann; Tse-Ming Chen; David A. Ritchie; Michael Kelly; Hannah J. Joyce; Charles G. Smith
Published in: ACS Nano, 6, 2020, ISSN 1936-0851
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.17863/cam.58544

All-optical neuromorphic binary convolution with a spiking VCSEL neuron for image gradient magnitudes

Author(s): Yahui Zhang; Joshua Robertson; Shuiying Xiang; Matěj Hejda; Julian Bueno; Antonio Hurtado
Published in: Photonics Research, 5, 2021, ISSN 2327-9125
Publisher: OPTICA
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2011.04438

Ultrafast optical integration and pattern classification for neuromorphic photonics based on spiking VCSEL neurons

Author(s): Joshua Robertson, Matěj Hejda, Julián Bueno, Antonio Hurtado
Published in: Scientific Reports, 10/1, 2020, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-62945-5

Toward Neuromorphic Photonic Networks of Ultrafast Spiking Laser Neurons

Author(s): Joshua Robertson, Ewan Wade, Yasmin Kopp, Julian Bueno, Antonio Hurtado
Published in: IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 26/1, 2020, Page(s) 1-15, ISSN 1077-260X
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/jstqe.2019.2931215

Electrically Controlled Neuron-Like Spiking Regimes in Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers at Ultrafast Rates

Author(s): Joshua Robertson, Ewan Wade, Antonio Hurtado
Published in: IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 25/6, 2019, Page(s) 1-7, ISSN 1077-260X
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/jstqe.2019.2899040

Physical Limits of NanoLEDs and Nanolasers for Optical Communications

Author(s): Bruno Romeira, Andrea Fiore
Published in: Proceedings of the IEEE, 2020, Page(s) 1-14, ISSN 0018-9219
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/jproc.2019.2912293

Neuromorphic encoding of image pixel data into rate-coded optical spike trains with a photonic VCSEL-neuron

Author(s): Matěj Hejda; Joshua Robertson; Julian Bueno; Juan Arturo Alanis; Antonio Hurtado
Published in: APL Photonics, 16, 2021, ISSN 2378-0967
Publisher: AIP
DOI: 10.1063/5.0048674

GHz Rate Neuromorphic Photonic Spiking Neural Network with a Single Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser (VCSEL)

Author(s): Joshua Robertson; Matěj Hejda; Dafydd Owen-Newns; Antonio Hurtado
Published in: IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 2, 2023, ISSN 1077-260X
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/jstqe.2022.3205716

Image edge detection with a photonic spiking VCSEL-neuron

Author(s): Joshua Robertson; Yahui Zhang; Matěj Hejda; Julian Bueno; Shuiying Xiang; Antonio Hurtado
Published in: Optics Express, 15, 2020, ISSN 1094-4087
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/oe.408747

Two-photon polymerization simulation and fabrication of 3D microprinted suspended waveguides for on-chip optical interconnects

Author(s): Ricardo M. R. Adão; Tiago L. Alves; Christian Maibohm; Bruno Romeira; Jana B. Nieder
Published in: Optics Express, 1, 2022, ISSN 1094-4087
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/oe.449641

Conference proceedings (5)

Photonic Synapse by Non-Linear Gain in a Vertical Cavity Semiconductor Optical Amplifier

Author(s): Juan Arturo Alanis; Joshua Robertson; Matej Hejda; Antonio Hurtado
Published in: IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC), 2, 2021
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ipc48725.2021.9592849

Neuromorphic Image Processing with a VCSEL Neuron

Author(s): Joshua Robertson; Juan Arturo Alanis; Gaetano Di Caterina; Paul Kirkland; Matej Hejda; Antonio Hurtado; Julian Bueno
Published in: IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC), 1, 2021
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ipc48725.2021.9592897

Strong Enhancement of Light Extraction Efficiency in Sub-Wavelength AlGaAs/GaAs Vertical-Emitting Nanopillars

Author(s): Bruno Romeira, Jerome Borme, Helder Fonseca, Joao Gaspar, Jana B. Nieder
Published in: 2019 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC), 2019, Page(s) 1-1, ISBN 978-1-7281-0469-0
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/cleoe-eqec.2019.8872150

VCSELs for fast neuromorphic photonic systems operating at GHz rates

Author(s): Matěj Hejda, Joshua Robertson, Julián Bueno, Antonio Hurtado
Published in: Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2020, 2020, Page(s) T4C.1, ISBN 978-1-943580-71-2
Publisher: OSA
DOI: 10.1364/ofc.2020.t4c.1

Ultrafast Emulation of Retinal Neuronal Circuits with Artificial VCSEL Optical Neurons

Author(s): Joshua Robertson, Ewan Wade, Antonio Hurtado
Published in: 2019 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC), 2019, Page(s) 1-2, ISBN 978-1-7281-0615-1
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ipcon.2019.8908359

Monographic books (1)

Resonant Tunneling Diode Photonics Devices and applications

Author(s): Charlie Ironside, Bruno Romeira and José Figueiredo
Published in: Morgan & Claypool Publishers/IOP Concise Physics, 2019, ISBN 978-1-64327-744-8
Publisher: Morgan & Claypool Publishers
DOI: 10.1088/2053-2571/ab3a9a