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NATURE
Volume 569, Issue 7755, Pages 208-+Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-1157-8
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- EPSRC in the UK [EP/J018694/1, EP/M015173/1, EP/M015130/1]
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) in Germany [PE 1832/5-1]
- European Research Council [724707]
- European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme [780848]
- EPSRC [EP/J018694/1, EP/M015173/1, EP/M015130/1, EP/R001677/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Software implementations of brain-inspired computing underlie many important computational tasks, from image processing to speech recognition, artificial intelligence and deep learning applications. Yet, unlike real neural tissue, traditional computing architectures physically separate the core computing functions of memory and processing, making fast, efficient and low-energy computing difficult to achieve. To overcome such limitations, an attractive alternative is to design hardware that mimics neurons and synapses. Such hardware, when connected in networks or neuromorphic systems, processes information in a way more analogous to brains. Here we present an all-optical version of such a neurosynaptic system, capable of supervised and unsupervised learning. We exploit wavelength division multiplexing techniques to implement a scalable circuit architecture for photonic neural networks, successfully demonstrating pattern recognition directly in the optical domain. Such photonic neurosynaptic networks promise access to the high speed and high bandwidth inherent to optical systems, thus enabling the direct processing of optical telecommunication and visual data.
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