CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
Advanced Search
Home > Proceedings > Volume 11284 > Article
Presentation
9 March 2020 Optical neural networks: from integrated photonics to free-space solutions (Conference Presentation)
Volker J. Sorger
Author Affiliations +
Proceedings Volume 11284, Smart Photonic and Optoelectronic Integrated Circuits XXII; 1128406 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2547495
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2020, San Francisco, California, United States
Abstract
Here we discuss two different approaches to realize optical neural networks (NN). Part ‘A’ focuses on integrated-photonics solution to realize a perceptron using (i) optoelectronic components to perform the MAC operation and (ii) a more novel concept of an all-optical nonlinearity for thresholding and thermo-optical memory for zero-power synaptic weighting. The latter is unique since the processor’s delay simply depends on the time-of-flight of the photon through the NN, which can be in the picosecond range enabling applications in real-time signal processing. Part ‘B’ discusses our recent process of 4f-based Fourier-optical filtering towards convolution neural networks (CNN); this approach uses massive parallelism (10^6 channels) of digital-mirror-display (DMD) technology. Here the computational expensive convolution is simple realized as a multiplication in the Fourier domain via a lens. Our generation (Gen) 1 system shows 250 TMAC/s process capability at 8-bit resolution.
Conference Presentation
© (2020) COPYRIGHT Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.
Citation Download Citation
Volker J. Sorger "Optical neural networks: from integrated photonics to free-space solutions (Conference Presentation)", Proc. SPIE 11284, Smart Photonic and Optoelectronic Integrated Circuits XXII, 1128406 (9 March 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2547495
ACCESS THE FULL ARTICLE
ORGANIZATIONAL
Sign in with credentials provided by your organization.
INSTITUTIONAL
Select your institution to access the SPIE Digital Library.
SELECT YOUR INSTITUTION
PERSONAL
Sign in with your SPIE account to access your personal subscriptions or to use specific features such as save to my library, sign up for alerts, save searches, etc.
PERSONAL SIGN IN
No SPIE Account? Create one
PURCHASE THIS CONTENT
SUBSCRIBE TO DIGITAL LIBRARY
50 downloads per 1-year subscription
Members: $195
Non-members: $335 ADD TO CART
25 downloads per 1 - year subscription
Members: $145
Non-members: $250 ADD TO CART
PURCHASE SINGLE ARTICLE
Includes PDF, HTML & Video, when available
Members: $17.00
Non-members: $21.00 ADD TO CART
PROCEEDINGS
 PRESENTATION
WATCH
PRESENTATION SAVE TO MY LIBRARY
GET CITATION
Advertisement
Advertisement
KEYWORDS
Integrated optics
Free space optics
Neural networks
Integrated photonics
Thermography
Picosecond phenomena
Artificial intelligence
RELATED CONTENT
Subscribe to Digital Library
Receive Erratum Email Alert
Back to Top