Abstract
In this paper, we demonstrate excitability in a silicon-on-insulator microring. Neglecting the fast light dynamics simplifies the calculation of the excitability onset. Excitable microrings will be useful as a basic building block in all-optical neural networks.
© 2012 Optical Society of America
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