Development of trainable all-optical spiking neural networks in integrated photonics and their applications Ghent University
The aim of this project is to build a small-scale, miniaturized ‘brain’ on a silicon chip. Although fabricated by the same infrastructure as digital chips, it will handle optical instead of electronic signals. Similar to its biological counterpart, it will consist of ‘neurons’, sending out pulses to each other. Information in such networks is represented in the pulse-timing.
I will show that this system is able to solve non-trivial tasks ...