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All-optical nonlinear activation function based on stimulated Brillouin scattering
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DOI：10.1515/nanoph-2024-0513.png)
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Optical neural networks have demonstrated their potential to overcome the computational bottleneck of modern digital electronics. However, their development towards high-performing computing alternatives is hindered by one of the optical neural networks' key components: the activation function. Most of the reported activation functions rely on opto-electronic conversion, sacrificing the unique advantages of photonics, such as resource-efficient coherent and frequency-multiplexed information encoding. Here, we experimentally demonstrate a photonic nonlinear activation function based on stimulated Brillouin scattering. It is coherent and frequency selective and can be tuned all-optically to take LeakyReLU, Sigmoid, and Quadratic shape. Our design compensates for the insertion loss automatically by providing net gain as high as 20 dB, paving the way for deep optical neural networks.
Keywords:
optoacoustics
nonlinear optics
nonlinear activation function
photonic neuromorphic computing
Brillouin scattering
optical fiber
optical neural network
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