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Tunable Nonlinear Activation Functions for Optical Neural Networks

Ian A. D. Williamson, Tyler W. Hughes, Momchil Minkov, Ben Bartlett, Sunil Pai, and Shanhui Fan

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Abstract

We introduce an electro-optic hardware platform for realizing optical nonlin earities and demonstrate that, as a nonlinear activation function, it can substantially improve the classification performance of optical neural networks.

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