Stephanie, M. V., Pham, L., Schindler, A., Waltl, M., Grasser, T., & Schrenk, B. (2023). All-Optical ReLU as a Photonic Neural Activation Function. In 2023 IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topicals Meeting Series (SUM) (pp. 1–2). https://doi.org/10.1109/SUM57928.2023.10224396
We experimentally demonstrate an alloptical rectified linear unit (ReLU) activation function for neuromorphic photonics applications enabled by optical frequency coding of signals. Furthermore, a comparison is made with an electro-optic approach building on a directly modulated laser.
