Exploring excitability in graphene for spike processing networks

Author

Shastri, Bhavin J. ; Nahmias, Mitchell A. ; Tait, Alexander N. ; Yue Tian ; Fok, Mable P. ; Chang, Matthew P. ; Ben Wu ; Prucnal, Paul R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

19-22 Aug. 2013

Firstpage

83

Lastpage

84

Abstract

We propose a novel excitable laser employing passively Q-switching with a graphene saturable absorber for spike processing networks. Our approach combines the picosecond processing and switching capabilities of both linear and nonlinear optical device technologies to integrate both analog and digital optical processing into a single hardware architecture capable of ultrafast computation without the need for analog-to-digital conversion.

Keywords

Q-switching; graphene; high-speed optical techniques; integrated optics; optical information processing; optical saturable absorption; C; analog-to-digital conversion; digital optical processing; graphene saturable absorber; integrated optics; linear-nonlinear optical device technology; novel excitable laser; passively Q-switching; picosecond processing; single hardware architecture; spike processing networks; ultrafast computation; Biomedical optical imaging; Cavity resonators; Graphene; Laser excitation; Optical pulses; Ultrafast optics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Numerical Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices (NUSOD), 2013 13th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Vancouver, BC

ISSN

2158-3234

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-6309-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NUSOD.2013.6633135

Filename

6633135