Antonio Hurtado

VCSEL Based Neuromorphic Computing

2023

We report on Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers (VCSELs) for high-speed and energy-efficiency systems for photonic neuromorphic computing, yielding excellent performance in complex processing tasks whilst benefitting from hardware-friendly implementations and full compatibility with optical communication technologies.

Photonic Spiking Neural Networks with Highly Efficient Training Protocols for Ultrafast Neuromorphic Computing Systems

2023 · Intelligent Computing

Photonic technologies offer great prospects for novel, ultrafast, energy-efficient, and hardware-friendly neuromorphic (brain-like) computing platforms. Moreover, neuromorphic photonic approaches based on ubiquitous, technology-mature, and low-cost vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) (devices found in fiber-optic transmitters, mobile …

Photonic Spiking Reservoir Computing Based on a Single Passive Silicon Microring and Time-Wavelength Multiplexing

2025

Spiking artificial neural networks leverage both analog (spike firing time) and digital (spike or quiescent state) processing modalities to efficiently process information through spike sparsity and are widely explored in electronic hardware [1]. In this …