Ultrafast all-optical implementation of a leaky integrate-and-fire neuron

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 2133-2147

  Kravtsov, Konstantin ^a   Fok, Mable P ^a   Rosenbluth, David ^b   Prucnal, Paul R ^c  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALL-OPTICAL; BIOLOGICAL NEURON; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; EXPERIMENTAL SETUP; FEEDBACK OPERATIONS; GENERAL PURPOSE; INTEGRATE-AND-FIRE NEURONS; NOISE ACCUMULATION; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS; SPEED-UPS; SPIKING NEURON; SPIKING NEURON MODELS; ULTRA-FAST;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

BIOMIMETIC MATERIAL;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; NERVE CELL; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; NEURONS; OPTICAL DEVICES; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 79851499716     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.002133     Document Type: Article

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