All-Optical Leaky-Integrate-and-Fire Neuron with Half-Sigmoid Transfer Function
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Li, Qiang; Wang, Zhi; Fu, Ziling; Wang, Huiying; Cui, Can; Wu, Chongqing
- Source
- 2019 Asia Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP) Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP), 2019 Asia. :1-3 Nov, 2019
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Photonics and Electrooptics
Signal Processing and Analysis
- Language
We experimentally demonstrated an all-optical leaky-integrate-and-fire (LIF) neuron which can perform half-sigmoid transfer function. The proposed all-optical LIF neuron can behave as an excitatory or inhibitory neuron by tuning the initial state of polarization.