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Photonic Spiking Neural Networks based on Q-switched laser integrated on Silicon


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• technological research for industry,
• fundamental research in the physical sciences and life sciences.

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Reference

SL-DRT-24-0790  

Direction

DRT

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Technological challenges

Thesis topics

Photonic Spiking Neural Networks based on Q-switched laser integrated on Silicon

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Job description

Neuromorphic networks for signal and information processing have acquired recently a renewed interest considering the more and more complex tasks that have to be solved automatically in current applications: speech recognition, dynamic image correlation, rapid decision processing integrating a plurality of information sources, behavior optimization, etc… Several types of neuromorphic networks do exist and, among them, the spiking type (SNN), that is, the one closest in behavior to the natural cortical neurons. SNN are the ones who seem to be able to offer a best energy efficiency and thus offer scalability. Several demonstration have been made in this domain with electronic circuits and more recently with photonic circuits. For these, the dense integration potential of silicon photonics is a real advantage to create complex and highly connected circuits susceptible to lead to complete demonstrations. The PhD goal is to exploit a photonics spiking neuromorphic network architecture based on pulsed (Q-switched) lasers interconnected by a dense and reconfigurable optical network on chip mimicking the synaptic weights. A complete laser, neuron then circuit model is expected with, in the end, the practical demonstration of an application in mathematical data processing (to be defined).

University / doctoral school

Sciences Physiques pour l’Ingénieur et Microtechniques (SPIM)
Franche-Comté

Thesis topic location

Site

Grenoble

Requester

Position start date

01/10/2023

Person to be contacted by the applicant

CHARBONNIER Benoit benoit.charbonnier@cea.fr
CEA
DRT/DOPT//LIPS
CEA - LETI
17, rue des Martyrs
38054 Grenoble Cédex
France
0438780162

Tutor / Responsible thesis director

JACQUOT Maxime maxime.jacquot@univ-fcomte.fr
Maxime JACQUOT

Research Institute FEMTO-ST
UMR 6174 CNRS
Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté
Département Optique,
15B Avenue des Montboucons,
F-25030 Besançon Cedex
France

+33(0) 363 082 416

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