Amorphous metal-sulphide microfibers enable photonic synapses for brain-like computing

• Main Authors: Khan, Khouler, Gholipour, Behrad, Bastock, Paul, Craig, Chris, Hewak, Dan, Soci, Cesare
• Other Authors: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering::Optics, optoelectronics, photonics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/106662; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/25035
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In the pursuit of all-optical brain-like computing, optical axons and photonic synapses are demonstrated using metal-sulphide microfibers, which allow the generation and propagation of optical action potentials. This gives rise to an all-optical implementation of a number of interneuronal and intran...