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Photonic Neural Network Nonlinear Activation Functions by Electrooptic Absorption Modulators

Jonathan George, Amin Mehrabian, Rubab Amin, Tarek El-Ghazawi, Paul K. Prucnal, and Volker J. Sorger

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Abstract

We report on using the transfer function of electrooptic absorption modulators as nonlinear activation functions of photonic neurons and show 95% accuracy of MNIST classification inference on an AlexNet in optical artificial neural networks.

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